Craftwork Podcast

Also, in case you missed our @craftworkpod.bsky.social interview with the brilliant and erudite Hajer Mirwali... We discussed cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and a whole lot more.

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New episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I chatted with @danielbraum.bsky.social about exploring the ecology of the supernatural, finding inspiration in liminal spaces, cultivating a sense of awe, and so much more.

Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Haunted Writings - Nightmare Magazine Throughout its history, horror literature has frequently mediated its eponymous affect through an obsession with the act of writing. The field is replete with writer protagonists, with depictions of t...

Read my first essay for @nightmare-magazine.com, "Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Hauntings Writings," which examines @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social's The Red Tree & @joycecaroloates.bsky.social's Jack of Spades as exemplars of 21st-century writer-centred horror.

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Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Sculpture, Anaphora, & Writing by Hourglass w/ Hajer Mirwali!

@talonbooks.bsky.social

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Listen to our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Daniel Braum (@danielbraum.bsky.social) about exploring the ecology of the supernatural, finding inspiration in liminal spaces, cultivating a sense of awe, and so much more.

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My debut novel turns 5 this month! Nice words from writers I admire:

“A full-bore, vicious death metal roar through suburbia towards hell.”
— @gemmafiles.bsky.social

“Superbly written.”
— @laurelhightower.bsky.social

"[A] coming-of-age story with teeth and claws.”
— @spmiskowski.bsky.social

Black History voices - BC Booklook Victoria celebrates Black History Month with poet Junie Désil, host Wayde Compton, and live music by Caleb Hart.

Check out this article in @bcbooklook.bsky.social about Junie Désil and Wayde Compton's upcoming event at the Baumann Centre:

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S/D/Y Jan 29 – Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer – Augur How do I keep stumbling upon stories with similar themes one after the other. The last story was all about metamorphosis and so is this one but in very, very different ways. This is a deliciously d…

Day 29! I read Cholorphilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social and @miriamricher.bsky.social published in @augursociety.bsky.social They say the grass is always greener... read my review here:
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We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩

Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik!

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New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025).

We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.

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Listen to our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more.

@talonbooks.bsky.social

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Happy birthday to the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, a true master of dark literature.

Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb

Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel.

@miriamricher.bsky.social

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Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...

We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.

"The Playground", an original work of fiction by Kathe Koja (The Cipher, Dark Factory, Straydog), traces a shift in ecological sensibility to what might be called a necessary violence.

@kkoja.bsky.social

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It's alive!

I served as guest editor for this special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, MONSTRUM: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror.

- 6 feature essays
- 2 original fiction pieces (by @kkoja.bsky.social & me)
- 3 retrospective reviews

And more! Read now!

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A Month-by-Month Peek at 2026's Most Anticipated Horror Horror enthusiasts, gird your loins. This new year looks particularly scary. As part of our rolling overview of upcoming titles in 2026, we’ve coll...

Happy New Year!! Very honored to find WRETCH on the Most Anticipated Horror list from Goodreads 🪲🕯️🖤

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A ‘best of’ list of 2025 Canadian poetry books
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It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more!

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Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Building Communities, Finding Guardrails, & Reading the Comments Section w/ Jean Marc Ah-Sen!

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Listen to our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking "what if", sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more.

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@ualbertapress.bsky.social

Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives CFP (November 30 deadline reminder) Proposal Submission Details Mike Thorn seeks proposals of no more than 500 words for essays (5000-7000 words) on or related to the topics listed below. He is especially interested in essays address…

Final CFP reminder (deadline November 30)!

PETER STRAUB: NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.

Seeking proposals (up to 500 words) on Straub's novels, stories, poetry, and essays.

More info: mikethornwrites.com/2025/11/17/p...

@igagoths.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social

Another exhilarating conversation about craft! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I spoke to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, building writing communities, reading the comments section, and lots more.

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Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Dreaming in Fire, Working in Clay, & Reaching for Awe w/ Ramsey Campbell!

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On the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social,
@miriamricher.bsky.social & I talked craft and process with
Jean Marc Ah-Sen.

Good conversation!

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Listen to our our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more.

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The Great Canadian Art Book Sale. Coming November 1. gooselane.com

🚨 Announcing: The Great Canadian Art Book Sale! 🚨

On November 1, we'll be launching our biggest sale yet: a whopping 50% off select art books! Get ahead on gifts this year — or treat yourself, you deserve it — while giving your wallet a break.

More information to come - stay tuned! 🤩

Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

If you're a reviewer and willing to do a girl a solid, there's definitely something on this list for calls for reviews that would treat you right.
And also there's my hoodlum of a book

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