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Marisca Pichette (she/they)
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makes things 🏳️‍🌈 | RIVERS (Android Press) | EVERY DARK CLOUD (@ghostorchidpress.com) | Stonecoast MFA '21 | HWA & SFWA 🐉 | Rep: @laurenbajek.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
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Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025!

Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇
Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press. Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines: One More Song Goblins and Galaxies #0 Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil Fusion Fragment #25 In Her Tower of Scales Worlds of Possibility, June 2025 The House of Us DreamForge Magazine #16 Naked They Cling Cosmic Horror Monthly #58 The Last Harvest Phano #2 Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies: Where Walls Once Rose Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Soft Fire BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror The Watercolor Room The Midnight Labyrinth How Not to Swallow a Dragon Behind the Revovling Door Nature Morte Hiding Under the Leaves Appleseed Spirit of the Wolf Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette: Nine Acre Corner Anomaly Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down Simultaneous Times #84 This is Not a Fiction Full House Literary, Spring 2025 One, Two, We, Our Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3 What the Boys Lost MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Happy 6 month book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD!!! 🍄☁️🖤

Hard to believe this novella has been in the world for half a year. Thank you to everyone who’s read, reviewed, gifted, and listened to these words. Keep it up ⛅️
@ghostorchidpress.com
Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD on a Victorian mortician’s table flanked by plants and bones.
September 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I read 2 excellent collections during @seattlein2025.org:
WEDDING OF THE FOXES by Katherine Larson
THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by @mlensheffer.bsky.social
Photo of two paperback books on orange ottoman: “Wedding of the Foxes” by Katherine Larson on the left and “The Man in the Banana Trees” by Marguerite Sheffer on the right.
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Voting is now open for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards @sfpoetry.bsky.social! I’ve got three finalists this year ✨

@mosspuppymag.bsky.social
Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Rhysling Award Finalist: Short Poem / Make me a sandwich / Star*Line 47.2 / Voting Deadline: September 15” Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Dwarf Stars Award Finalists / binary system / Star*Line 47.2 / death is a less terrible thing / Moss Puppy Mag #7 / Voting Deadline: September 1”
July 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Have you checked out @sfwa.bsky.social's silent auction yet? You can nab one-of-a-kind earrings (made by me) and a signed copy of EVERY DARK CLOUD 🌙
May 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I can finally shout about this!!! I am thrilled, honored, & profoundly PUMPED to share that I am now represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social at @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the magic, the mystery, & the manuscripts to come ☕️🔮🕯️
Graphic with sepia toned bookshelves in background and two headshots centered: Lauren Bajek on left and Marisca Pichette on right. Text above reads “Signed!” with Liza Dawson Associates logo underneath.
May 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Highlights from yesterday’s @salemhorrorfest.bsky.social with @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @beantownhorrors.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @krissiekwrites.bsky.social & @mattmbartlett.bsky.social

👻 🖤 📚
May 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Spotted in the wild 💫 @sillysyntax.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Happy 1 month birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD! 🍄💚

@ghostorchidpress.com 🖤
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It’s my birthday today! The best gift you can give any author is to read their work so I guess this is a shameless self promo post 🌸
Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair and Every Dark Cloud on a brightly colored striped silk scarf.
April 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Happy 2yr book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR 🌼🐚🌼
Photo of poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair resting amount bright green grass and sunny field daisies.
April 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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somewhat delayed: March 2025 sub stats!

no poems this month, but 1 micro--and, more importantly--my debut novella was published!!

EVERY DARK CLOUD is now available wherever books breathe 📖
books2read.com/u/4D5Xak
April 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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🔥OUT NOW 🔥

A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster.

Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤
Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.
March 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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⛅two weeks⛅
Photo of left hand holding three copies of EVERY DARK CLOUD above potted plants in bright sunlight.
March 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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EVERY DARK CLOUD is just 20 days away!!

Why wait? Preorders are OPEN @ghostorchidpress.com 🔥
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Square graphic with cover art detail of figure falling through fiery clouds. Image of EVERY DARK CLOUD cover on top and centered, with arrows spiraling outward to various vibes: “queer af” “climate justice” “race against time” “bioluminescence” “dark sci-fi” “near-future”
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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EVERY DARK CLOUD plummets through the atmosphere in exactly 1 month!!! Here are some excerpts to stoke the fires of anticipation 🔥

Preorder now from @ghostorchidpress.com
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Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "The Coalition dissolved eighty years ago. We owe our world to them. We owe our lives." Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "We look up, blinded by the present and the future. Only when we blink can we see a brief image of the past--a flicker of darkness hiding on the other side of sight." Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "My imagination, so wonderful for designing beautiful buildings, betrays me by painting an all-too-realistic picture of what's to come." Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "Stories can't fix this. Words won't put my life back to where it was twelve hours ago."
February 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Hugo nominations are open until March 14! Below are my awards-eligible stories, published in
@podcastle.org @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @angrygablepress.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @dragonsroost.bsky.social & more
Dark purple graphic with following white text: 2024 Short Fiction by Marisca Pichette “Ashed & Burning Eye” Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter #61 “All the Better to Taste You” PodCastle #834 “White & Wolf” The Pleasure in Pain “This is How to Die Like AI” Neon Dystopia “Mother Mollusk” Uncharted Magazine “Only the Dead” Extrasensory Overload “Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring” Clarkesworld #215 “Bootleg Baba’s Beautiful Claws” Laughs in Space “Gravestone House” Too Bad, You Died “Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24” The Deadlands #36 “Hearts and Flowers” Worlds of Possibility, December 2024
February 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Looking for a silver lining? EVERY DARK CLOUD is here ☁️

Publishing March 25, 2025 🔥

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Photo of a stack of EVERY DARK CLOUD viewed from above, resting on a dark purple cut velvet background with a string of gold beads and dried flowers bordering the books. Cover art depicts a person standing silhouetted in blue-green light from bioluminescent mushrooms. Above, a minute figure falls through fiery clouds. Photo of a stack of EVERY DARK CLOUD viewed from above, resting on a dark purple cut velvet background with a string of gold beads and dried flowers bordering the books. Top book is flipped over to show back copy. Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to dedication page, which reads “To darkness and all it reveals.” Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to the first page. Opening lines “We all know the history. How grass used to be green, clouds were once white, nights broken by hours of day.”
February 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In 2024, I published 10 stories & 45 poems & I’m here to play favorites🔮

Stories:
"Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24" in @thedeadlands.com
"Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
"White & Wolf" in TPIP @dragonsroost.bsky.social

Poems ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Graphic with black background and two columns titled "Favorite Stories of 2024" and "Favorite Poems of 2024." Stories in left column are as follows: "Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞ The Deadlands #36 Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring Clarkesworld #215 White & Wolf The Pleasure in Pain" Poems in right column are are follows: "In a castle far from every prince F&SF, Summer 2024 We’re all Mad here Orion’s Belt, May 2024 Against cold stone Vastarien Vol. 7.0" Illustration of canid skull and oval mirror frame adorn the bottom of the image in beige.
January 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Made a new suncatcher 🌈
Photo of left hand holding up suncatcher in front of yellow wall spattered with rainbows. Suncatcher is composed of a long bone crisscrossed with dark violet ribbon suspended from a braided leather and copper chain. Three strings of crystals hang from the bone, interspersed with amethyst beads.
January 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The new journal has been initiated with stickers; let the writing begin 🖊️

Stickers courtesy of @thedeadlands.com @apparitionlit.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @franwilde.bsky.social
Photo of leatherette journal being held in left hand over potted plants. Stickers on cover include stack of spellbooks, art nouveau posters, skeleton hand balancing songbird, headstone, and octopus demolishing city with plus size woman in foreground. Photo of leatherette journal being held in left hand over potted plants. Stickers on back cover depict grim reaper, crystal cluster, astronaut fishing for planets, space cat riding bicycle, and shield emblem with “Truth, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg” motto encircling an egg.
January 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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My fave 2024 reads mix art history, space, short fic, & death. In no set order:

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel
TENDER by Sofia Samatar
LOVELY CREATURES by @ktbryski.bsky.social
WHEN THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS by Erik Asphaug
A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES by Rob Wilkins
Graphic with black and white background of darkened multi-storey library. Five book covers are displayed, including: MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel TENDER by Sofia Samatar LOVELY CREATURES by KT Bryski WHEN THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS by Erik Asphaug A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES by Rob Wilkins
December 31, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Awards season continues with poetry! I published ~50 poems this year, 47 of which are eligible for
@sfpoetry.bsky.social's Rhysling & Dwarf Stars awards 🌟

All available links are on my website!
mariscapichette.com/poetry
Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text: "2024 Poems by Marisca Pichette Eligible for the Rhysling Award: 40 Short Poems 4 Long Poems Eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award: 3 Poems" Messages Image description Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text: "Rhysling Award: Short Poems “chrysalis of teeth” Star*Line 47.1 “sporing” Dreams & Nightmares #126 “Against cold stone” Vastarien Vol. 7.0 “women and” Vastarien Vol. 7.0 “Thumbelina” Vastarien Vol. 7.0 “For an eye” Vastarien Vol. 7.0 “Meditation on the contours of absence” Vastarien 7.0 “WRITE THIS DOWN” Audacious Women “Once” Enchanted Living #66 “A seal is born with two skins, and keeps only one” Dissections, March 2024 “(Little) Red” Dissections, March 2024 “coyotes run faster than wolves” Dissections, March 2024 “Make me a sandwich” Star*Line 47.2 “Old Men Collect Old Things” Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2 “What stars are made of” Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2 “Looking-glass, half-full”Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2 “casket” Dusty Attic Vol. 3 “the dragons of old stone walls” Eye to the Telescope #52 “My dreams were white & treacherous” Vocivia #5 “Picturesque” Heroica “When she gave birth to the universe” Madam President Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text: "Rhysling Award: Short Poems (cont.) “rabbit hole (resurfaced)” Sage Cigarettes #19 “You must wear your rue with a difference” Haven Spec #16 “Rhedynog” Star*Line 47.3 “Start to Finish” Bleeding Hearts Beat Still “Bride to the Queen of Winter” Slay and Slay Again “In a vial on the windowsill you’ll find it” Asimov’s Sept/Oct 2024 “Self-Titled” Ethel Zine Vol. 11 “Every robot has a switch she can’t reach” Radon Journal #8 “waning, waning” Strange Horizons 9/23/24 “firestarter” Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2024 “The Snowmelt Queen” Star*Line 47.4 “Stonemaiden” Star*Line 47.4 “Moving Without; a Thought” Moss Puppy Mag #7 “Her music was not meant for me” HWA Poetry Showcase #XI “No Place” Eye to the Telescope #54 “The Snowmelt Queen” Star*Line 47.4 “Stonemaiden” Star*Line 47.4 “cassiopeia, in spring” Door is a Jar, Winter 2024 “Mirror, mirror” New Myths, Winter 2024" Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text: Rhysling Award: Long Poems “happily ever” Good for Her “We’re all Mad here” Orion’s Belt, May 2024 “In a castle far from every prince” F&SF, Summer 2024 “A Modern Mrs Monster” Nocturne Magazine #4 Dwarf Stars Award: “spirits like snowflakes” Haunted Words Press #7 “binary system” Star*Line 47.2 “death is a less terrible thing” Moss Puppy Mag #7
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Thinking about starting an author website, but not sure where to begin? I'll be giving a workshop online at @elegantliterature.bsky.social this Saturday!

www.elegantliterature.com/authorhq/
Headshot and text on left reading: "Marisca Pichette / Mother of Creation: The Perfect Website / Designing a simple yet effective page / elegant literature.com / Live training: Dec 14th"
December 9, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Honored to see several of my 2023 stories and poems on this list, including pieces from @penumbricmag.bsky.social, @sfpoetry.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, the anthologies SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED, THE OLD WAYS, and ASEPTIC & FAINTLY SADISTIC, and my collection 🖤
Screenshot from Ellen Datlow’s 2023 list of recommended horror, with highlight on pieces by Marisca Pichette: Pichette, Marisca “All Hallowed Tides Break Upon This Shore,” Shakespeare Unleashed. Pichette, Marisca “Crackle Ball,” (poem) Penumbric August. Pichette, Marisca “Kalanchoe daigremontiana: a family tree,” (poem) Star*Line, 46.4 Fall. Pichette, Marisca “The Flock,” Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic. Pichette, Marisca “The Size of Your Fist,” (poem) Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair. Pichette, Marisca “The Twelve Dying Princesses,” Nightmare December #135. Pichette, Marissa “Spines,” The Old Ways, Volume Two.
November 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM