Cowriting meeting tonight! 9/18 @6:30 EST. If you are interested, just message me here! Silent cowriting group on Zoom: camera/off. Prompts for poetry, fiction and nonfiction provided as the meeting starts. Hope to see you!
#amwriting, #writingcommunity, #writingcommunity
Tune in to @BBCRadio4 today at 15:30 to hear an abridged version of Manish Chauhan's BBC National Short Story Award-shortlisted 'Pieces'. 📻
Read the full story as well as the other shortlisted stories here: https://t.co/rDLU9inmLb
Crows call the morning, hop the mist and shout their dreams of the night. Cunning folk check spiderwebs, dewed-silk thrumming with omens for the unfolding day. Children pull on their porridge force fields.
September 18, 1955: 8:00: A bath 9:45: A day of talk on deck with Carl Shakin, “wonderful mystic rapport” as they hold hands across a table, watch a movie, eat a turkey dinner, “windy black night on deck No Carl” https://t.co/MZC7CwRb4p
Ooh! Publishing on Thursday, The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins. These covers get better & better & look at those endpapers, so ghoulishly pretty. Edited by @XAldanaReyes, cover by @mauriplz & Mag Ruhig. #GildedNightmares
The roads into Ightfield are said to be haunted by a phantom horseman riding a large black horse. Upon appearing, he charges at passers by with great speed but disappears before reaching them.
#Paranormal#Shropshire#Ghosts#Folklore
i’ve got a poem in @NewYorker this week—a kind of meditation on mortality + retail time, with cameos from Halloween City 🎃, Mircea Eliade, + my sister! (from Assembled Audience, due out in 2026 from @Milkweed_Books) https://t.co/3lNT5ZfkLh
So the debate goes on about my “icons” here’s a 🧵religious icons are one off paintings that are an act of prayer. The “icons” I make are a series of paintings that are created using repurposed, printed, tourist souvenirs, from the late 1890s-the present day.
my chapbook is live!!!! many many thanks to the @VariantLit team and to @TaylorByas3 for picking the chap and blurbing it and to @BenKlinePoet and @jasonbcrawford for adding their words to it as well!!!!!!!
In medieval times, there was a belief that when unmarried women died, their souls turned into black cats.
As a spinster, all I can say is…this makes my day. #FolkloreThursday