VANDAL drops
Vandal: Stories of Damage, dropped on Tuesday 21 Feb! Live launch to come but you can look at some of the Facebook Event activity here. Thank you to Crystal Lake Publishing, and to Team V: Aaron Dries and Kaaron Warren.…
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Winter Haunts Workshop
I’ll be running a workshop called Writing Horror With Heart as part of Alex Davis’s Winter Haunts Event, on November 6, a day of panels, workshops and talks about ghosts and ghost stories and the supernatural. Hope to see you…
Reflecting back on World Fantasy2018, Baltimore
Where do I start? Probably with a huge huge shout-out to CreateNSW who made travel to WFC Baltimore possible by awarding me the Artist Quick Response Travel Grant. This is the first time I’ve gone to World Fantasy with any…
“Raining Street” picked up by Black Static Magazine.
The “Yes” just in my inbox yesterday – super super psyched to be picked up by this smart mag out of the UK, and for a story about snake beans! Thanks to Andy Cox from TTA Press for digging it,…
Aletheia shortlisted for Aurealis Awards
Blown away and grateful to be listed among such stellar talent. 2017 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement
This is Horror – finally.
So I’ve been a fan of this show for years – I even wrote about it at Volume 1: Brooklyn and now I’m on it. You want a show that covers craft, art, suffering, conferences, story, inspiration, desperation, awards,…
I tell Nick Kaufman the scary bits
Author Nick Kaufman has me on his blog to talk about the scariest part of writing Aletheia. It couldn’t end at that moment of total narrative collapse, but it was really difficult for me to see beneath its broken structure…
Review of “Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories,” and Gamut sale
My review of Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories is over at LitReactor. Neat collection, lots of stories and images that linger. Couldn’t really name a favorite, because of the breadth of styles and subject matter, loosely connected around the idea of…
Standing desk time.
This is how I’ll finish the editing.
Weird as F@#k Horror up at LitReactor
Weird horror instilsl a kind of terror in the reader, but the kind of terror where the fever dream is not so much to defeat It, as to see It, touch It. Make It stick. Because without It, what are we?