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C.H. Pearce
@chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
absolutely winning the clenching my jaw and hunching my shoulders competition, leaving my opponents in the dust
Lost Souls’ very own Editor in Chief Ben O’Mara is hosting a workshop “Skin in the Game” next Saturday! Come along to learn everything there is to know about recounting the truth of the darkness in your everyday life.
Launch event for Your Body is a Fever Dream tonight!! I'm gonna be reading my short story! Lifelong dream come true stuff happening, here withfriends.co/event/293444...
Y'all, we're one week down; 23 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT to BRAVE NEW WEIRD! BRAVE NEW WEIRD showcases the BEST Weird Fiction PUBLISHED IN THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR, via independent press or self-publishing. Got something that qualifies? Hit us up here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/9/... 🖤☠️
For the evening people! I have a new S&S story out featuring the maiden Lady Blood, death goddess of underground Xibalba. If you’re in the mood for some weird/violent/horny Mayan fantasy, check this out!
xavier garcia@xaviergarcia.bsky.social · 4d agoHey everyone! The good news keeps coming. I got a new Lady Blood story published! If ya got time for some evil Mayan gross horror Sword & Sorcery, definitely check out issue #195 @aurealisfsf.bsky.social's mag. This piece is one of my favourites! aurealis.com.au/store/aureal...
i'm at the lit space / i'm at the genre space / i'm at the combination lit space and genre space
Free shipping on Bookshop.org Oct. 6 and 7. Grab pale Grey Idol and support indies not billionaires. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...
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They're saying there's an anti-prime day sale. They're saying you might pick up a short story collection for the anti-prime day sale. Is that true bookshop.org/p/books/unce...
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
LOCUS AWARD WINNERWORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTNEBULA AWARD WINNER ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)PHILIP K. DICK AWARD SPECIAL CITATIONBRAM STOKER AWARD(R) NOMINEE ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)BRITISH SCIE...
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RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
One of my favorite people on the planet has a book coming out in about two weeks. Tatratea by @alexwoodroe.com is a hallucinatory & cerebral exploration on isolation, & y'all shouldn't sleep on it. Romanian eco-horror. The good shit. 10/20/26 @clashbooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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Halloween reading, Meerkat-style. 🖤 For readers who like their fiction dark, strange, unsettling—and occasionally impossible to categorize. What are you reading this Halloween? #HalloweenReading #HorrorBooks #WeirdFiction #DarkFiction #HorrorFiction #MeerkatPress meerkatpress.com/catalog/
Oh, hai! Rest of World, my novella Fitcher's Bird comes out tomorrow! Australia, you've got another week to wait, sorry! And if the words "beautiful", "bleak" and "violent" don't sell you, then honestly I just don't know what's wrong with y'all! 🤣
Wrote my first newsletter in ages, instead of writing my books... okay re-directing back to drafting. HERE is my very brief little update on me, for anyone interested <3 zkabraham.com/2026/10/03/a...
A FLASH autumnal update
Hello my loves! I miss writing blogs/this newsletter. This used to be my only form of writing; moments of confessional, the pseudo-personal essay, in which I would share what was going on with me c…
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Excited to have my weird praying mantis story “Fall In” included in @chmmagazine.bsky.social 76 (ed. Jolie Toomajan) alongside these excellent names! Love the haunting cover art by Katie Beardmore. Last pic is internal art I couldn’t resist including too. 🖤 🦑 cosmichorrormonthly.com
Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca
Yesss. Pre-ordered! I had the opportunity to read an early version of this novella and it’s brilliant—so wondefully weird with a compelling, complex heroine—excited for everyone to get to read it too! 🌊 🖤 📚
Z.K.A. (she/her)@pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2w agoPRE-ORDER link is live! THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!
Our last submission window of 2026 is now open through October 14. Send us your solarpunk short stories, poems, essays, and art!! Sub guidelines and link at solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions
Love the theme “Terminally Online” and honoured to do the cover art (that cute little cymothoa exigua just wants to help)! I can’t wait to read these stories! 🤩 💻 🖤
Fusion Fragment@fusionfragment.bsky.social · 2w agoSaros SF #7 is nearly here! Release date coming soon, so get ready for stories by @adamdelrey.bsky.social, Alexandra Nyx, Mir Rainbird, Mathew Lebowitz, Becks Simpson, and @kirkvanderbeek.bsky.social. Edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, this issue features cover art by @chpearcewrites.bsky.social!
It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6
Cover reveal! Our October issue looms upon the very near future with fantastic art from Katie Beardmore! zurl.co/CZz1I
WE FUNDED!! AHH! Thank you, everyone!!! Now, with about 24 hours left, any additional monies means I CAN BUY MORE TIME LOOP STORIES. 👀⏳ (And subs will open in two weeks!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories
Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!
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I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2026🏳️🌈 I round up over 10 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social @tinaconnolly.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
Some Queer Short SFF - August 2026 | Charles Payseur
Hi all! The year continues to be a difficult for me personally but I’m still happy to be able to help spread the news about some recent quee
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i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020
Story Hour
Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...
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