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Jonathan Louis Duckworth
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Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Godless leftist, Lecturer at University of North Texas
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Cover reveal! Here’s the early mock-up of the cover for my second collection of horror stories, Noctivagants, coming early 2027 with @lethepress.bsky.social !
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.

"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
The cover of the book is a vintage, slightly foxy red, with white font beside a large black and white ampersand.
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Meet my new office assistant
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is a literary slammajamma of an opening
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Big news! My second collection of horror stories, NOCTIVAGANTS, is coming out in 2027 with Lethe Press!

Cover reveal coming soon!
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)
"I spent a while trying to figure out how to classify An Honour & a Privilege. Viewed through one lens it might not seem an important question: classification is mostly helpful for shelving decisions. But genre also dictates how one reads a thing. Whether you think of this book as an anthology (many authors), a collection (one common author), or a craft book (the reflective duets) may affect your perception of the whole. I struggle to compare this work to any of those three genres. The project in front of you reveals more about its craft than other anthologies. It's more authentically connected to strong exemplar material than other craft books. It's more heteroglossic than any collection I recall. The best way to think of An Honour & a Privilege may be to regard it as a genre all its own, one which depends significantly on its many interconnections, one which marks both an occasion and an invitation, one which offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it." From the Foreword by Dr. Graham Robert Scott. The cover of the book is a vintage, slightly foxy red, with white font beside a large black and white ampersand.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This one is pretty wild. If you’re a fan of gothic fiction, fin de siècle aesthetics, and materialist critiques disguised as horror, this one’s for you
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Heigh ho! The 4th story in THE JOINING is told from a marrow-sucking marital bed. What's sweetest in life lies nearest the bone, after all...

Thanks to @jduckwriter.bsky.social for submitting this excellent (and oddly romantic!) story! THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25 from @crystallake.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Heigh ho! The 4th story in THE JOINING is told from a marrow-sucking marital bed. What's sweetest in life lies nearest the bone, after all...

Thanks to @jduckwriter.bsky.social for submitting this excellent (and oddly romantic!) story! THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25 from @crystallake.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I am begging fantasy authors to actually look up how much swords weigh. I get the impression most of them believe a great sword weighs 50 lbs, when the average weighed more like 8
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It's cover reveal time! From @crystallake.bsky.social, THE JOINING comes out 12.12.25, including twisted tales from...

@jduckwriter.bsky.social
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
@horrorsong.blog
@jacklothian.bsky.social
@jawmccarthy.bsky.social
@gordonbwhite.bsky.social

...and a host of others!
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Current read: Empire of the Vampire
October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Curious to see: what word processor do you use to write? I've always used MS Word and probably always will, but I'm curious what else is out there.
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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It’s really telling how all the commercials for AI products like Gemini infantilize their consumers.
September 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Today Dandelion the book cat is being The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Thanks, Gabino! Get on THE EL wherever you stop for books. Happy #FridayReads!

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August 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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ICYMI, my newest short story came out earlier this week with Beneath Ceaseless Skies! "Bloody Muddy Water" is a fantasy detective story where spellbreaker Rugg and his alligator mount, Tugboat, must solve the mystery of the Headsick plague spreading through the swampy canals of Blackvill.
August 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Live in BCS #439: "Bloody Muddy Water" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Rugg read her. The knit of the veil was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!!

It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal
Sometimes the letter wants to go over bridges already burned. The bridge must have been here when the boy passed. The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, A...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“how coalmine the canary /
how cathedral the heart’s chambers /
how crow the call / how bright the under”

Really exquisite poem today from @jduckwriter.bsky.social
jduckwriter.bsky.social Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 20
My newest published poem, "Armature," is out today in an absolutely STACKED issue of the Bennington Review: www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-duc...
Jonathan Duckworth — Bennington Review
www.benningtonreview.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The sequel to my Best American SFF story “Bruised Eye Dusk” is out today in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Come down to Perish to have another adventure with Rugg the Spellbreaker and his gator mount, Tugboat!
August 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My newest published poem, "Armature," is out today in an absolutely STACKED issue of the Bennington Review: www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-duc...
Jonathan Duckworth — Bennington Review
www.benningtonreview.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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@nicolaz.bsky.social I’m not the only one in this house enjoying your truly excellent second entry in the Hild series
August 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A lot of creative writing pedagogy takes for granted processes that may be uniquely effective to the individual instructor but may not work for everyone. I share what works for me with students, but always with the caveat that we must each discover our own best process for creating work
August 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Our backyard chickens have produced their first egg of many!!
August 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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New reading desk. Soft but a little on the small side, can’t fit much more than a single book
August 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM