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thank you to everyone who touched this essay, from inception to editorial, and to the crushers and crushees who read and shared it this year! and thank you Alexander Chee for selecting it—and for encouraging queer, trans, and authors of color to submit work for consideration ❤️
'Maybe this makes me a bad writer, or an undermotivated, poorly disciplined one. But it’s the only kind of writer I feel capable of being.' Katie Okamoto on omamori, luck, how to find your way back to writing: catapult.co/stories/i-soug…
H. Dair Brown is on a roll with #flash fiction #horror right now with a review of Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror! Ed. by @thelincoln & Nadxieli Nieto, this collection of 40 stories will hit the spot when you need a quick bite of horror! 📚😱
unsettlingreads.squarespace.com/blog/tinynight…
As Natasha “Boo👻 Bees🐝” Oladokun 🎃 writes, The Witch is terrifying because it depicts the deep levels of cruelty humans are capable of—especially when they believe their religion condones it: 'We are capable of so much destruction on our own, without the aid of devils.' catapult.co/stories/natash…
'When I envision language as a place of struggle, I imagine that I am leaning into the tension inherent to my identity as a Black woman writer in a country and field that were not created with me in mind.' Najya Williams chats with Gabrielle Bellot: catapult.co/dont-write-alo…
'I must listen to callings higher than writing, like loosening a stiff body to prepare for a long day of pain.' aditi natasha kini on how writing advice is made for able bodies: catapult.co/dont-write-alo…
Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno discuss Sofia's new THE WHITE MOSQUE in person at Strand Book Store tonight! 7pm!
Get your last minute ticket here!
eventbrite.com/e/sofia-samata…
'The frightening underbelly of wealth has powered our image of the haunted house for decades.' Nour Abi-Nakhoul on the horrifying minimalism of the modern haunted house. Read here: catapult.co/stories/nour-a…
'Over the last decade, more and more horror films have begun to use fashionable modernist structures as settings for terror.' Nour Abi-Nakhoul on the horrifying minimalism of the modern haunted house: catapult.co/stories/nour-a…