C. M. Harmon
@cmh-writes.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer, black, loves a vegan dessert. She/her
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C. M. Harmon
@cmh-writes.bsky.social
· Oct 22
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
If you could summon the Crossroads Man, what might you make a deal for? What might you be willing to lose?
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
Hey, you!
Yes, you.
Deadline for registering to vote in NYC is tomorrow. If you’re eligible make your voice heard!
Yes, you.
Deadline for registering to vote in NYC is tomorrow. If you’re eligible make your voice heard!
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hey, you!
Yes, you.
Deadline for registering to vote in NYC is tomorrow. If you’re eligible make your voice heard!
Yes, you.
Deadline for registering to vote in NYC is tomorrow. If you’re eligible make your voice heard!
It’s that time again. Here are 2 pieces that have stuck with me over the past few months!
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball. Grim and uncomfortable and a delight to read.
Whale Fall of Yours by M. M. Olivas. The kind of piece you have to stop and sit with after you’ve finished. Whew.
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball. Grim and uncomfortable and a delight to read.
Whale Fall of Yours by M. M. Olivas. The kind of piece you have to stop and sit with after you’ve finished. Whew.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s that time again. Here are 2 pieces that have stuck with me over the past few months!
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball. Grim and uncomfortable and a delight to read.
Whale Fall of Yours by M. M. Olivas. The kind of piece you have to stop and sit with after you’ve finished. Whew.
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball. Grim and uncomfortable and a delight to read.
Whale Fall of Yours by M. M. Olivas. The kind of piece you have to stop and sit with after you’ve finished. Whew.
If you could summon the Crossroads Man, what might you make a deal for? What might you be willing to lose?
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If you could summon the Crossroads Man, what might you make a deal for? What might you be willing to lose?
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
My short story “Soul Food” is out in FIYAH today along with so many other incredible pieces. You can check it out here :’)
I’ve been lucky enough to workshop this piece! It’s got such a gorgeous lush world and the tension between Vesper and Ireika?
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October 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to workshop this piece! It’s got such a gorgeous lush world and the tension between Vesper and Ireika?
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I'm so honored and excited to share I have a new story in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social coming out this October! Look at this incredible cover!
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')
Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...
September 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm so honored and excited to share I have a new story in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social coming out this October! Look at this incredible cover!
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')
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“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”
September 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”
That feeling when you lend someone a book and they come back and ask if you have the sequel???
Unparalleled.
Unparalleled.
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
That feeling when you lend someone a book and they come back and ask if you have the sequel???
Unparalleled.
Unparalleled.
A few more books joined my “writing goals” shelf in the first half of this year:
Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel.
I love a complex woman character. Unabashed anger? Battering down double standards?? Gimme.
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
1 word. P r o s e.
Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel.
I love a complex woman character. Unabashed anger? Battering down double standards?? Gimme.
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
1 word. P r o s e.
September 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A few more books joined my “writing goals” shelf in the first half of this year:
Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel.
I love a complex woman character. Unabashed anger? Battering down double standards?? Gimme.
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
1 word. P r o s e.
Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel.
I love a complex woman character. Unabashed anger? Battering down double standards?? Gimme.
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
1 word. P r o s e.
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📚 Since 2022, the @BrooklynPublicLibrary has offered free eCards to teens nationwide facing book bans in their local communities! ✊🏾✨
📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler
📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas
📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe
📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson
📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler
📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas
📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe
📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📚 Since 2022, the @BrooklynPublicLibrary has offered free eCards to teens nationwide facing book bans in their local communities! ✊🏾✨
📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler
📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas
📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe
📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson
📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler
📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas
📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe
📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson
So I just started listening to Writer’s Routine. And I cannot believe that the Anthony Horowitz of my beloved Magpie Murders is the SAME Anthony Horowitz that wrote the Alex Rider series.
Talk about a callback!!
Talk about a callback!!
September 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So I just started listening to Writer’s Routine. And I cannot believe that the Anthony Horowitz of my beloved Magpie Murders is the SAME Anthony Horowitz that wrote the Alex Rider series.
Talk about a callback!!
Talk about a callback!!
One aspect of being chronically ill is I know, indisputably, what the best sick at home show is.
Taskmaster.
It is funny. It requires 2 brain cells max. You can pass out and wake up and not feel you’ve missed a thing.
Taskmaster.
It is funny. It requires 2 brain cells max. You can pass out and wake up and not feel you’ve missed a thing.
July 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One aspect of being chronically ill is I know, indisputably, what the best sick at home show is.
Taskmaster.
It is funny. It requires 2 brain cells max. You can pass out and wake up and not feel you’ve missed a thing.
Taskmaster.
It is funny. It requires 2 brain cells max. You can pass out and wake up and not feel you’ve missed a thing.
Decided to learn how to sew.
I’m definitely not picking up another hobby to purchase all the supplies for and abandon in 3 months.
But I am enjoying picking out several patterns and pinning fabric stores and ooooh notions!
I’m definitely not picking up another hobby to purchase all the supplies for and abandon in 3 months.
But I am enjoying picking out several patterns and pinning fabric stores and ooooh notions!
July 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Decided to learn how to sew.
I’m definitely not picking up another hobby to purchase all the supplies for and abandon in 3 months.
But I am enjoying picking out several patterns and pinning fabric stores and ooooh notions!
I’m definitely not picking up another hobby to purchase all the supplies for and abandon in 3 months.
But I am enjoying picking out several patterns and pinning fabric stores and ooooh notions!
Listen closely. Hannah is one of the most talented writers ever. And I mean ever. Go read all her stuff, she has linked to a lot of beautiful work on her profile. It’s the best thing you’ll do with your day!
(Also give her more awards they’re so well deserved!!)
(Also give her more awards they’re so well deserved!!)
Shocked and delighted that my short story “Everything in the Garden Is Lovely” in @apexmag.bsky.social made the shortlist for the World Fantasy Award!!
The World Fantasy Awards 2025 shortlist is now out! Congratulations to all the finalists.
Please see the post on our website for the full list and more info: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/world-fantas...
Please see the post on our website for the full list and more info: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/world-fantas...
July 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Listen closely. Hannah is one of the most talented writers ever. And I mean ever. Go read all her stuff, she has linked to a lot of beautiful work on her profile. It’s the best thing you’ll do with your day!
(Also give her more awards they’re so well deserved!!)
(Also give her more awards they’re so well deserved!!)
I want super flowery speculative fiction. Give me the most vivid violet prose but with magic and time travel.
Apparently some of these books are hiding in the Fiction TM genre but how do I tell them apart? Just read every back copy from a-z?
Apparently some of these books are hiding in the Fiction TM genre but how do I tell them apart? Just read every back copy from a-z?
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I want super flowery speculative fiction. Give me the most vivid violet prose but with magic and time travel.
Apparently some of these books are hiding in the Fiction TM genre but how do I tell them apart? Just read every back copy from a-z?
Apparently some of these books are hiding in the Fiction TM genre but how do I tell them apart? Just read every back copy from a-z?
Me having an ardent debate at work at 4:59 pm.
Then 🕔 (🍕)
Then 🕔 (🍕)
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me having an ardent debate at work at 4:59 pm.
Then 🕔 (🍕)
Then 🕔 (🍕)
I know writing a novel is a rollercoaster of emotion but what if it was just nice and flat?
I have an idea —I wrote the idea— I didn’t cry about the complexity of the idea—I finished the idea
Just. So nice. So flat.
I have an idea —I wrote the idea— I didn’t cry about the complexity of the idea—I finished the idea
Just. So nice. So flat.
June 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I know writing a novel is a rollercoaster of emotion but what if it was just nice and flat?
I have an idea —I wrote the idea— I didn’t cry about the complexity of the idea—I finished the idea
Just. So nice. So flat.
I have an idea —I wrote the idea— I didn’t cry about the complexity of the idea—I finished the idea
Just. So nice. So flat.
I just downloaded the Bookshop.org app!! Excited to try out e reader alternatives to the Big Online Store
June 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I just downloaded the Bookshop.org app!! Excited to try out e reader alternatives to the Big Online Store
My theory is 83% of people who love their jobs do super niche things that only a handful of the population can possibly do.
Like “Panda barber” or “food mosaic artist”.
Out here like “I’m super happy also my joy is impossible to reproduce!”
Like “Panda barber” or “food mosaic artist”.
Out here like “I’m super happy also my joy is impossible to reproduce!”
May 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My theory is 83% of people who love their jobs do super niche things that only a handful of the population can possibly do.
Like “Panda barber” or “food mosaic artist”.
Out here like “I’m super happy also my joy is impossible to reproduce!”
Like “Panda barber” or “food mosaic artist”.
Out here like “I’m super happy also my joy is impossible to reproduce!”
I really want the New York Times to do a “which house did they pick” but for the nyc rental market.
Did they take the cosy sunny unit with 0 closets? The large unit that with 2 windows both facing a brick wall? Or the huge sunny affordable one a 35 min walk from the subway?
Did they take the cosy sunny unit with 0 closets? The large unit that with 2 windows both facing a brick wall? Or the huge sunny affordable one a 35 min walk from the subway?
May 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I really want the New York Times to do a “which house did they pick” but for the nyc rental market.
Did they take the cosy sunny unit with 0 closets? The large unit that with 2 windows both facing a brick wall? Or the huge sunny affordable one a 35 min walk from the subway?
Did they take the cosy sunny unit with 0 closets? The large unit that with 2 windows both facing a brick wall? Or the huge sunny affordable one a 35 min walk from the subway?
Has anyone figured out the balance between wanting to write tons of snarky skeets and wanting the kind of privacy that is living in a cabin by a pond, writing all your work via typewriter and shipping it to your editor in a box?
Bc if so pls share lol
Bc if so pls share lol
March 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Has anyone figured out the balance between wanting to write tons of snarky skeets and wanting the kind of privacy that is living in a cabin by a pond, writing all your work via typewriter and shipping it to your editor in a box?
Bc if so pls share lol
Bc if so pls share lol
Why don’t we have a workplace comedy about airports yet?
With an operation this complex I’m sure there’s some shenanigans that you could wring 4 seasons of laughs out of
With an operation this complex I’m sure there’s some shenanigans that you could wring 4 seasons of laughs out of
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Why don’t we have a workplace comedy about airports yet?
With an operation this complex I’m sure there’s some shenanigans that you could wring 4 seasons of laughs out of
With an operation this complex I’m sure there’s some shenanigans that you could wring 4 seasons of laughs out of
Okay who made the little claymation frog to go with Bad Bunny’s new album?
I’m o b s e s s e d this lil guy is so cute
I’m o b s e s s e d this lil guy is so cute
January 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Okay who made the little claymation frog to go with Bad Bunny’s new album?
I’m o b s e s s e d this lil guy is so cute
I’m o b s e s s e d this lil guy is so cute
Finally I get to make a “announcement” in writerly fashion!
Thrilled to share I’ll be attending Futurescapes in Florence, Italy this May!!
So excited to work with the incredible Ali Fisher. Already loved her thoughts on Writing Excuses and the idea of getting them in person?? 🥹
Thrilled to share I’ll be attending Futurescapes in Florence, Italy this May!!
So excited to work with the incredible Ali Fisher. Already loved her thoughts on Writing Excuses and the idea of getting them in person?? 🥹
December 27, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Finally I get to make a “announcement” in writerly fashion!
Thrilled to share I’ll be attending Futurescapes in Florence, Italy this May!!
So excited to work with the incredible Ali Fisher. Already loved her thoughts on Writing Excuses and the idea of getting them in person?? 🥹
Thrilled to share I’ll be attending Futurescapes in Florence, Italy this May!!
So excited to work with the incredible Ali Fisher. Already loved her thoughts on Writing Excuses and the idea of getting them in person?? 🥹
The holidays are almost upon us! Time for all writers to overestimate how much time we’ll have to write because we’ll have a “break”
December 19, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The holidays are almost upon us! Time for all writers to overestimate how much time we’ll have to write because we’ll have a “break”
