Dear Nicoletta in the trenches
@dearnicoletta.bsky.social
30s | She/Her | Pan | Fantasy & Horror writer | princess under glass | educator | Elegant Literature Winner | Words in The Fabulist, Mother: ToLaT, Bourbon Penn, Midnight Pals Podcast dearnicoletta.com
Contributor Spotlight! 🪐 Nicoletta Giuseffi @dearnicoletta.bsky.social (she/her) is a pansexual princess under glass. She writes fantasy and horror, with work appearing in publications like Bourbon Penn, The Fabulist, and Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
very busy editing zines and writing for other zines in my other life, maybe I should bridge the gap one day...
writing an absolutely unhinged story and loving it, like real cackling and rubbing my hands together hours
I was ecstatic to come across this review of my short fiction in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #37 Maria Haskins! Locus Magazine! wow!
Maria Haskins@mariahaskins.com · 7mo agoYou can read part of my February short fiction review column for Locus Magazine in Locus Online right now: locusmag.com/review/benea... Get Locus in print or digital: subscribers.locusmag.com/back-issues
The May issue of LOCUS includes my short fiction review column, featuring stories from Baffling, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Get in in print or digital: locusmag.com/2026/05/issu...
working with an editor on a piece today and falling in love with it all over again
i love when i return to some writing i forgot i wrote and lines stun me here and there
Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...
BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
There's a kind of forest in western Oregon that you feel before you understand. The BLM just gave the timber industry permission to tear it all down.
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Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!
Of course you're confused. That story was for girls.
I always get so many tummy butterflies when I give Japanese presentations in front of native speakers 😭
couple wins lately, more info soon
haven't posted on here much but I recently reconnected with someone I haven't seen in thirty years and I didn't know I could feel emotions like these!
a story about finding acceptance in the dark so happy it has a home here in the excellent Plott Hound Magazine
Plott Hound Magazine@plotthoundmag.bsky.social · 8mo agoCheck out this jackal-in good story, "He Came Starving to the Altar" by @dearnicoletta.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...
Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...
Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️
You can read (or listen to me read) my weird Christmas horror story, "The Sadly Beautiful Life Cycle of the Mrs. Claus," for free!
Weird Christmas@weirdxmas.bsky.social · 2y agoYou wondered if it would actually happen this year. IT DID! SWEET LORD JESUS IT FINALLY DID! weirdchristmas.com/2025/01/06/2...
lost my dog last Wednesday. 14 and a half years old. I don't know who I am without her, but I have support and am celebrating her life in the ways I can. I wrote a little memoir of her life and got to read it to her. her last weeks were very comfortable and peaceful and she went without pain.
Her health has improved a bit so I called it off. Taking it day by day right now. Writing a little memoir of her life to serve as a diary of my feelings. I wish everyone could know her as I do.
Dear Nicoletta in the trenches@dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 11mo agolikely going to say goodbye to my dog this week. she was an enormous part of my life. not sure how I can go on without her but I'll figure it out.
likely going to say goodbye to my dog this week. she was an enormous part of my life. not sure how I can go on without her but I'll figure it out.
I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️