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Ivy Grimes
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Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · Nov 20
This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!

Thread updated weekly, maybe?

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The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
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On this day in 1953, the two-act play "Waiting for Godot," by Samuel Beckett premiered in Paris.

Writing in the Irish Times, critic Vivian Mercier said it was a play in which nothing happens. Twice.

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The impulsive Estragon and the relatively rational Vladimir are the play’s two main characters. In both acts, their dialogue gives voice to absurdity and desperation. Spoiler alert: Godot does not appear. So, anyone can interpret the play as an indictment of anything that appears absurd and desperate: life, waiting in a long line to buy theater tickets. Anything. That may be one reason the play continues to attract new audiences. A scene from the first production of "En Attendant Godot," (Waiting for Godot) Paris, 1953. Photo credit: Roger Pic Copyright: Bibliotheque National de France Image source: The Telegraph
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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Thanks for talking to me!!

I cannot listen to this myself because the sound of my own voice makes me queasy. But I enjoyed our chat!!
horrorjoypod.bsky.social HorrorJoy Podcast @horrorjoypod.bsky.social · 19h
Our latest episode of Horror Joy Meet Your Maker is live! Join me (Jeff) as I chat with @ivygrimes.bsky.social about horror, joy, and everything in-between.

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January 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Our latest episode of Horror Joy Meet Your Maker is live! Join me (Jeff) as I chat with @ivygrimes.bsky.social about horror, joy, and everything in-between.

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January 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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This card gave me a headache eight years ago.
This card gave me a headache eight years ago.
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Thanks for talking to me!!

I cannot listen to this myself because the sound of my own voice makes me queasy. But I enjoyed our chat!!
horrorjoypod.bsky.social HorrorJoy Podcast @horrorjoypod.bsky.social · 19h
Our latest episode of Horror Joy Meet Your Maker is live! Join me (Jeff) as I chat with @ivygrimes.bsky.social about horror, joy, and everything in-between.

redcircle.com/shows/979960...

#horrorjoy #horrorsky #horrorpod #horrorfans
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January 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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A new year, a new month, a new free drabble!
Let's try not to anger any old gods, shall we? And read my drabbles while you're at it. 😅😂
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January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️

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Starting the year from the bottom of the slope
I like to think I’m quite a positive person, and the start of the year, for me, usually feels like it amplifies that sense of positivity through its inherent newness, the multiple possibilities lying ...
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January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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One resolution for this year is to spend either more or less time thinking about the relationship between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. It can't be the same amount of time, though.
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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A Sick X-Mas – Roman Neznayu The Velvet Alibi – Ambrosia Key When We Were Evil – SB Caves Kamp Kromwell – AJ Grea The Curse of Six – Mark T Bates Uninvited – Philip Meese The Last Time We Drowned - Saratoga Schaefer Quiet the Night – Delliom Ellidom Bed Rot Baby – Wendy Dalrymple Pedro the Vast – Simon Lopez Trujillo Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave – Ally Russell The Cellar Below the Cellar – Ivy Grimes
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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The books I read in October, November and December (not pictured: 📱 @ivygrimes.bsky.social - The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion, 🎧 Neville Jason - The Life and Work of Marcel Proust, 🎧 Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life) 📚 #booksky
A stack of books on a mantelpiece, a porcelain dog, some pinecones and a vase with branches of holly The books: 📖 Marcel Proust, La prisonnière (EN: The Captive) 📖 Diane Tutton, Guard Your Daughters 📖 Ana Paula Maia, On Earth As It Is Beneath (tr. Padma Viswanathan) 📖 Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House 📖 Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue (EN: The Fugitive) 📖 Lucía Lijtmaer, Cautery (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy) 📖 Rachel Ingalls, Mrs Caliban 📖 Jonathan Buckley, One Boat 📖 Daniela Catrileo, Chilco (tr. Jacob Edelstein) 📖 Tezer Özlü, Journey to the Edge of Life (tr. Maureen Freely) 📖 Antônio Xerxenesky, An Infinite Sadness (tr. Daniel Hahn) 📖 Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé (EN: Time Regained) 📖 Renato Cisneros, The World We Saw Burning (tr. Fionn Petch)
January 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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say what you will about Tom Cruise, I hope he will be my Virgil someday
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up. oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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In my newsletter, I talk about 2025 books, movies and shows I loved, but also short fiction! You can find the list with links in the back half, with great work by
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20/25 Vision: Looking Back (Thoughts & Lists)
It’s the 29th of December as I write this newsletter. Believe it or not, it’s snowing here in Buffalo. On top of that bit of normalcy, winds are hitting 70...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year

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"The Monument" by R L. Summerling. Picture depicts an abstract shape against a blue sky with clouds "It was a comfort, the professor said. Just for a while, no one could remember who was alive and who was dead."
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule."

-interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social

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Interview with Aaron Burch
fun, earnest, Tacoma!
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December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A little bit of self-promo as it's my birthday 🙂 I had 4 stories published this year: a dog food infertility story, a 🪼jellyfish🪼 story, one about fairies, and one about a hitman who badly needs a nap. If any of that sounds like your thing, please have a read and let me know what you think! 🤘 ❤️
mckatie.bsky.social Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · Nov 15
Here's my 2025 ✨ Awards Eligibility ✨ post - only 4 stories but I'm very proud of them all and would love for more people to see them 🥰 Thank you so much to everyone who has read / published / been supportive of my work this year! ❤️ 🧵
December 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Are you ready to make 2026 your Big Writing Year? Why not invest in a craft book that will demystify techniques and support you on your journey?

AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE is a collaborative fiction/non-fiction anthology about what we write, why we write it, and what we do when the going gets tough.
A Black woman with painted nails holds a copy of AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE, a red-covered book of collaborative craft writing by Lindz McLeod
December 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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New additions to my library, including books by @cliffjones.bsky.social (who I met here in #HorrorWritersChat ), @ivygrimes.bsky.social and @brianevenson.bsky.social

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December 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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lol, literally hit post on this then checked my email where there was an email from @ivygrimes.bsky.social that our interview is posted, wherein she writes in the intro:
I was grateful to read an ARC of Aaron Burch’s exhilarating upcoming novel Tacoma! And I've never read anything like this. It's a glorious experiment, a novel of total freedom and optimism. It was very refreshing to read a novel about a writer who is enjoying himself in all these surreal and life-affirming ways. I need to go to Tacoma! We all do.
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I'm just not bothered when I'm reading a story with typos. It doesn't distract me from the main point.
December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Not to spoil it (which doesn’t even really matter) but I think this might be my fave ending I’ve written.
“How are you?” I ask, looking him right in the eyes, meaning it more than I maybe ever have before. “I’m okay,” Billy says. “I mean…I’m not. I’m a fucking mess. But I’m okay. I will be. You know?” And the thing is, I do. I do know. “Life, man,” Billy says. “It’s so hard.” I laugh, the simplicity of it catching me off guard. “But it’s so fucking beautiful, too, isn’t it?” I laugh at that too. “I know,” I tell him. “It is. It really is.”
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Frolic Press launches on New Year's Day. In 2026, we'll be reprinting some classics with outside matter by @ramseycampbell.bsky.social and others.
In 2027, we'll have our first anthology of new fantasy and horror feat. myself, Massimo Magee, @ivygrimes.bsky.social and more TBA!

#HorrorWritersChat
marywyrd.bsky.social Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 12d
Share your latest horror writer wins, news, sales, promos or horror creations you recommend.

Give the gift of a like, repost or quote post for other promos

REMEMBER: ONLY self-promote if you’ve participated in the questions.

Eryn @erynmccee.bsky.social is hosting #HorrorWritersChat on 31 December
That’s it for this week. There is no algorithm here, so visibility depends on engagement with others. Answer the questions, use the hashtag, share each others stuff and comment on their posts. FINALLY. Have you got something to sell or shout about? Now’s your chance! Share those promos and links now. See you next time! #HorrorWritersChat - background image in duotone (hot pink and purple) of the upper torso and head of a gingerbread person lying on a wooden counter. They look distressed; their mouth, made of icing, is an “oh” shape above their bowtie, and there is a worrying amount of liquid around their head.
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I think the American flag would be prettier if the white-and-red stripes were dropped.
December 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This is how pressure works. Advocates say Jeanette Vizguerra may not have to stay in ICE detention while her case moves forward. ICE detention is often framed as inevitable. In reality, it’s discretionary.

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Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released on bond from Aurora ICE jail - Sentinel Colorado
Vizguerra gained prominence after she took refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM