Sophia Adamowicz
@sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social
Writer of dark fictions//Faber Academy alumna//work published in Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys, Haven Speculative and more//co-founder of Artemis Writers UK
Former medievalist
sophia-adamowicz.wixsite.com/website
She/they 💗💜💙
Former medievalist
sophia-adamowicz.wixsite.com/website
She/they 💗💜💙
And now my wall of horror is complete
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And now my wall of horror is complete
Part 2 of my story about the horrors of teaching in the UK education system is available to read now on my Substack. Missed part 1? There's a link at the top of the post. 🦡
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
Black, White and Red All Over
A short story about stress, trauma and recovery (part 2)
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Part 2 of my story about the horrors of teaching in the UK education system is available to read now on my Substack. Missed part 1? There's a link at the top of the post. 🦡
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
Part 1 of a short story about teacher stress and the horrors of the English education system. It's very close to my heart. I'd love it if you gave it a gander (or badger) and let me know your thoughts!
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
Black, White and Red All Over
A short story about stress, trauma and recovery (part 1)
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Part 1 of a short story about teacher stress and the horrors of the English education system. It's very close to my heart. I'd love it if you gave it a gander (or badger) and let me know your thoughts!
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
Pickin' up good vibrations from the Sound and Vision issue of @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social. My article in here covers sensory deprivation tanks, medieval musical visions and the harmony of the spheres, and I absolutely can't wait to read the rest of this sublime content.
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Pickin' up good vibrations from the Sound and Vision issue of @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social. My article in here covers sensory deprivation tanks, medieval musical visions and the harmony of the spheres, and I absolutely can't wait to read the rest of this sublime content.
The Lair of the White Worm
The Nigel Kneale classic that never was
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Reposted by Sophia Adamowicz
We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃
Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃
Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season...
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Reposted by Sophia Adamowicz
Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social, for nominating my weird little flash fiction story for the Genrepunk Awards! This is my first award nomination, and I am truly humbled.
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social, for nominating my weird little flash fiction story for the Genrepunk Awards! This is my first award nomination, and I am truly humbled.
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
The third and final part of my spooky cultural history of Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole:
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
The history of a hell hole
Part 3: Once more into the deep
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September 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The third and final part of my spooky cultural history of Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole:
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
Part 2 of my history of Eldon Hole, featuring dastardly deeds under cover of darkness
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
The history of a hell hole: Part 2
Murder at the mouth of Hades
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September 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Part 2 of my history of Eldon Hole, featuring dastardly deeds under cover of darkness
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
This month, two cavers became trapped down the deepest chasm in Derbyshire. But they were far from the first to descend into a living nightmare...
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open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
History of a hell hole
Part 1: The first descent
open.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This month, two cavers became trapped down the deepest chasm in Derbyshire. But they were far from the first to descend into a living nightmare...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
First rain of August
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
First rain of August
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears
The real-life setting of my folk horror novel is causing real-life mischief! Glad everyone was okay in the end. @romgothsam.bsky.social you might (not) appreciate this:
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Explorers trapped 60m down in Peak District cave
They were stuck inside the cave throughout the night until just before sunrise
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The real-life setting of my folk horror novel is causing real-life mischief! Glad everyone was okay in the end. @romgothsam.bsky.social you might (not) appreciate this:
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
Is #TogetherMovie a horror comedy? Which other horror films have made you laugh recently?
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Funny bones, blood and guts
Horror gets viscerally witty
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August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Is #TogetherMovie a horror comedy? Which other horror films have made you laugh recently?
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I discovered this fishy fella on my recent trip to Italy. Here's what I found out about his species: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
The Mer-demon of Todi
How a sea devil made a splash in Italy
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August 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I discovered this fishy fella on my recent trip to Italy. Here's what I found out about his species: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...
I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.
Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour?
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Sophia Adamowicz (@sophiaadamowicz)
Did your parents ever try and terrify you with a cautionary tale?
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July 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour?
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Reposted by Sophia Adamowicz
From our latest issue 🦝
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
🧵1/2
In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
🧵1/2
In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
July 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
From our latest issue 🦝
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
🧵1/2
In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
🧵1/2
In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/
Reposted by Sophia Adamowicz
2/2
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/
July 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
2/2
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/
The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.
Would read! #BluePit
July 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Would read! #BluePit
Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed.
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July 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed.
sophiaadamowicz.substack.com/p/nature-mos...
sophiaadamowicz.substack.com/p/nature-mos...
Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*