Emma Johnson-Rivard

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.3 Contributors:

Jessie Atkin bluesky: @jessieatkin.bsky.social
Mallory Ann Caloca
Jack B. Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social
Ace Boggess
Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social
Lana Eileen
Kate Efimochkina
K.J. Hannah Greenberg

The first of the Illustrations I did for @lostincult.co.uk's upcoming book "Perfect Organism" a celebration of Alien Isolation written by @ultrabrilliant.xyz

Go check it out now!

Greetings, vocal artisans! Escape Pod is looking for a Trinidadian woman narrator to narrate a story we've got on the conveyor belt. If you're interested, please see our narrator guidelines here!

The latest issue of Screen Bodies cowers in awe of the monstrous-feminine in THE SUBSTANCE, the SAW series, and New French Extremity cannibal films. #MeganKenny #ChaseBucklew #LouisaJoy @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

45% off, people!!!

Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.

Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western

Hey, it's me!

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

Consider this your final warning, and feel free to remove yourself from the classroom if you think it'll be too much for you.

-from "The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#ShortStory #horror

I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.

This is a good time. I'm always a sucker for stories in conversation with other stories and this is a really good example of one.

Mother, Darling
by Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social

"Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way?"

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

#shortstories #fiction #fantasy

Eyyy check out my dinosaur poem

Out of Bounds and Sinning: on Trangessive Art — Broken Hands Media And if thinking about what your mouth is doing this much has you feeling a certain way—feeling a certain warmth—that’s good: in discussing transgressive art, a little productive discomfort is a good p...

Smart piece on what transgression is, and what it isn't, from C. E. Boyle.

www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/1/...

One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night.
As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Letter From Minnesota: “Mad Means Something” The greatest poem ever written about Minneapolis is a curse on the city. It‘s by James Wright, who wrote “The Minneapolis Poem” and published it in Shall We Gather at the River in 1968. He hated th…

“She didn’t weep. / She got mad. / Mad means something.”
lithub.com/letter-from-... #IceOut #ReadRiseResist

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Hey, it’s my werewolf story!

agreed !!!! but also.... there are some rlly gr8 trans horror papers lined up for this years queerhorrorconference.com ! hosted by HWA & U Pitt! schedule + registration sign up shld be out soon---everythings on zoom, u can watch and chat from wherever you are ♡

Hey, it’s my werewolf story!

Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

a cartoon drawing of three dogs with a moon in the background and the letters rdb on the bottom ALT: a cartoon drawing of three dogs with a moon in the background and the letters rdb on the bottom

As a heads up, my werewolf story “The Dog Road” will be in episode 730 of Tales to Terrify coming out on Friday!

talestoterrify.com

@talestoterrify.bsky.social

ALA day 1...! come visit me and my cup noodle crime

g.a. costa's poem "On the Factory Floor" depicts industrial accidents and their disturbing consequences.

We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:

open.substack.com/pub/radonjou...

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.

Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Hell yes. Keep an eye out for our show in 2026.

THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER

Dan Stevens, Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Stephen Root, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, and so many more great actors.

I am so proud of what we created and for you all to see it. It’s gonna fuck you up! In a good way.

Happy new year! fingers crossed you all have a great '26