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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎
@novellamenagerie.com
Horror Author | BIPOC & Queer | Salem, MA | NEHW | 1816 Award Winner

Assist. Editor @ Drabblecast & Reader @ Moonday Mag

Work in Blood+Honey, Gavagai, Cosmic Horror Monthly (pub date TBD), etc

Work below 🔽

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Hi friends! My short story “It’s Okay” is out and it would mean so much if you read it. It is all about the ambiguity of death and what that means to each of us.

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/its-...
I’ve been in such a writing funk with how busy I’ve been, but I’m pulling myself out of it

I decided that I will spend time searching for inspiring photos and movie scores each day, put them in a randomizer, and write 500 words for whatever I get! It’s been going so well, woohoo!
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
@tammykomoff.bsky.social is one of the sweetest and most supportive people in this community!

I’m so glad that we crossed paths! Here’s to a wonderful 2026 with the best group of folks ever 🥂
Just a quick note to say I really appreciate my Bluesky community! You all have been so warm and welcoming.

Next month marks my 1 year anniversary of interacting with the platform and I just can't believe how much I have learned and laughed with you all.

Thanks again and here's to a great 2026!
a man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car and saying `` i appreciate you ! ''
ALT: a man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car and saying `` i appreciate you ! ''
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January 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Hello lovely people! If you don’t read my story Two Sizes Too Small, you will make this orangutan (🦧) very sad
I woke up to see that my story “Two Sizes Too Small” is up on @gavagai.com !! I loved writing this one, as it’s inspired by my day to day experience with OCD. I really hope you’ll give it a read, and let me know what you think!

www.gavagai.com/posts/333
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
It amazes me that 15 year old me found one of those ear piecing guns and then thought it would be a great idea to give myself a cartilage piercing, simple because I felt like it. I’m so lucky it healed right 😭😭
January 2, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Happy new year!!!
January 1, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Oh my god I did it 🧎🏽‍♀️‍➡️
December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Got the email today!!!! I need to receive a document to sign and have them process it before someone nabs the spot. My HEART
I’m running on 2 hours of sleep after traveling back home, but today I find out if I can officially attend a 20 week workshop I received a partial scholarship for, and I’m so tired but so eager for that email. Fingers crossed!!
I was chosen with 9 other people from all of NE so I’m really nervous
December 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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james cameron every few years
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small

- Received 8 short story acceptances 🎉
-Made it into 1 pro and 1 semi-pro market
-Published in two paperback anthologies
- Won an award!
-Started a literary agent internship

I’m so grateful for everything 2025 offered me ❤️
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small

- got snr management to come down and speak to my team mid-implosion and engage with us. Things now on the up
- applied to the HWA (just sent off my royalties evidence)
- Published fiction
- New mini podcast series out
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small

💙📚 I published my Medusa retelling
🩷💪🏻 I survived my day job being cut and having to change roles to something completely new
❤️💊 I got my ADHD diagnosis, and am working to find the right meds, even though it’s tough
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’m sick (again, help me) and I fell asleep holding my kindle and had a fever dream that I was eating it
December 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
No email yet. I’m DYING
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m running on 2 hours of sleep after traveling back home, but today I find out if I can officially attend a 20 week workshop I received a partial scholarship for, and I’m so tired but so eager for that email. Fingers crossed!!
I was chosen with 9 other people from all of NE so I’m really nervous
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My biggest dream before I die is to have one of my pieces adapted into a short film. I never really considered it a possibility until recently, and damnit I’m gonna make it happen
December 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For the first time in YEARS my hometown is having a white Christmas! It was so nice to wake up and see snow instead of rain and mud 😅
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I can’t decide if my new coat makes me look like Nosferatu or a super cool stylish girlie but I’m okay with either
December 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Friends I have a Stokercon question that is giving my anxiety. If I use a preferred name, how does that work with the whole badge process? I heard that my badge name has to match my ID so I am Stressed
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
StokerCon friends- they added a few panels to Sched!
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I somehow popped a blood vessel in my eye and I’m gonna look like I just lost a bar fight in all of our Christmas photos
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m getting so excited for StokerCon!
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So sad to hear about James Ransone, may he rest in peace 🤍
December 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Planning some workshops for the Salem art gallery! I’m thinking of doing them over zoom as well, if that’s something you’d be interested in!
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Winter is all fun and games until you get two back to back colds with three days of peace in the middle
December 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Missing Coco very much today. I miss how she would meet me at the bus stop when I was little. I miss how she’d scratch her back on the rocks in the driveway. I miss how she would stick out her tongue if you gave her a good pet. I hope she can feel me sending her the biggest hug.
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM