Rebecca Summerling (she/her)
@rlsummerling.bsky.social
Writer and reader of the strange.
Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books
My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot.
www.rlsummerling.com
Banner art by John Chrostek
Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books
My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot.
www.rlsummerling.com
Banner art by John Chrostek
Pinned
I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them
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COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!
Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
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Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
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January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!
Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
See more in our newsletter:
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Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
See more in our newsletter:
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Two reviews! One very positive, one pretty negative! But which?!?
STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
January 28, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Two reviews! One very positive, one pretty negative! But which?!?
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Starspeaker, my story about an eternal cosmic apocalypse—and the dysfunctional mother & daughter trying to end it—lives in this issue!☄️❤️🩹 proud to be part of this killer line-up & to have my words behind such a gorgeous cover
STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
January 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Starspeaker, my story about an eternal cosmic apocalypse—and the dysfunctional mother & daughter trying to end it—lives in this issue!☄️❤️🩹 proud to be part of this killer line-up & to have my words behind such a gorgeous cover
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I am fucking *delighted* that a magazine found something worth sharing in a nauseating, unsavory tale about a failing restaurant. More so that that magazine was Seize the Press. Even more so that it sits alongside the most wicked cover and some profoundly unsettling weird fiction.
STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
January 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I am fucking *delighted* that a magazine found something worth sharing in a nauseating, unsavory tale about a failing restaurant. More so that that magazine was Seize the Press. Even more so that it sits alongside the most wicked cover and some profoundly unsettling weird fiction.
This is such a stacked issue and I am incredibly excited for everyone to read these stories!!
STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
This is such a stacked issue and I am incredibly excited for everyone to read these stories!!
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Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch
I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
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Contemporary Gothic
Review 31 is an online literary review.
review31.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch
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I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
Contemporary Gothic
Review 31 is an online literary review.
review31.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
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I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Signed up for this the moment I saw it!
I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
January 3, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Signed up for this the moment I saw it!
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more
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
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
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more
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I was inspired by everybody being thoughtful and looking back on the year, so I did the same thing with my infrequent personal newsletter.
Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.
Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.
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...
buttondown.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I was inspired by everybody being thoughtful and looking back on the year, so I did the same thing with my infrequent personal newsletter.
Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.
Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.
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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
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
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Beautiful piece, so visual and immersive. Sadness like flowers sprinkled through it.
December 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Beautiful piece, so visual and immersive. Sadness like flowers sprinkled through it.
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i will never stop. i will never moderate. i will never treat anyone forcing this shit down the world's throat as though they are anything but antisocial wreckers divorced from even the most cursory understanding of beauty and joy
December 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i will never stop. i will never moderate. i will never treat anyone forcing this shit down the world's throat as though they are anything but antisocial wreckers divorced from even the most cursory understanding of beauty and joy
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
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
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TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), for a Christmas movie, surprising echoes of PERFECT BLUE & Satoshi Kon's darker work, the cruelty of the world fracturing people's selves, leaving jagged edges that wound others. Making our 3 broken heroes putting themselves between the world & a baby all the more moving.
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), for a Christmas movie, surprising echoes of PERFECT BLUE & Satoshi Kon's darker work, the cruelty of the world fracturing people's selves, leaving jagged edges that wound others. Making our 3 broken heroes putting themselves between the world & a baby all the more moving.
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I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia.
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
Amy Boucher
Hi there, This month, I’m walking 50 Miles for Dementia UK – a cause close to my heart. Just £10 could pay for the telephone costs of two families calling its free Dementia Helpline, so any sup...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia.
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
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What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
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2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...
What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
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New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading.
Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY
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Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY
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My Books of the Year, 2025 – Part 1
I seem to say this every year, but 2025 really has been a great reading year for me. From new releases to treasures from the TBR to brilliant reissues and rediscoveries, the books have been excelle…
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December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading.
Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/m...
Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/m...
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New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
Christine Lai on thinking beyond the self, the veneration of violence, and making art in a collapsing world | Seize The Press Magazine
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December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
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ICYMI!
"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze Of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept In The Dark - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept in the Dark
gnofhorror.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ICYMI!
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An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Whalesong - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The whalesong hits when she’s on the highway. Up until that point, Hailey had just been driving, foot tensed on the pedal, hoping velocity would turn into an answer for a question that she didn’t know...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...