Lee Murray

Oversight: Erasure Poetry – guest post by Carina Bissett & Lee Murray “Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.” —Virginia Woolf In the famous, book-length essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1929), Virginia Woolf comments …

Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for this insightful guest post on their experience crafting erasure poems from writings by women from history. buff.ly/jixqJkV
#erasurepoetry #foundpoetry #poetrycommunity

Super excited to appear in aL Washington's Mystical Loft horror podcast talking about This Way Lies Madness -- and other things. Free to listen. Available on YouTube and Spotify. 30 mins so perfect for a weekend coffee pause.

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Best Books of the Year Author Talk:

Join Silk & Sinew Editor Kristy Park Kulski and Author @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for an insightful discussion on the anthology

Register here:

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#nowreading this way lies madness, a really beautiful little anthology of horror tales centering mental health issues, curated by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social via flame tree publishing. as a lifelong sufferer, i'm really looking forward to this.

My debut collection includes stories that have garnered 13 awards and shortlistings as well as new stuff. @leemurraywriter.bsky.social said lovely things about it and it’s out now - order here!

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Flame Tree Myth & Fiction Fiction Podcast · Thrill to the adventures of the past and visions of the future. Featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, short stories, ancient tales, myth and folklore from ...

THIS WAY LIES MADNESS is a new antho edited by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @davebjeffery.bsky.social that present fictional depictions of madness. Hear more about the collection at Flame Tree Press podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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Ahead of tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davejeffery.bsky.social, editors of Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to chat about stigmas & how horror can actually help us.

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Delighted to be joint winner of the Shadows Award for Poetry with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! My poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue," (BESTIARY OF BLOOD: MODERN FABLES & DARK TALES, @crystallake.bsky.social, ed. Jamal Hodge) was honoured alongside Lee's collection, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD.

My contributor copy for THIS WAY LIES MADNESS arrived. I could cry! It's beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Thank you so much to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social. "Bangs" is perhaps the most personal short story I've ever written. Honored to have it featured in this anthology.

Thank you so much for being part of the project, Emily.

Welcome Two New Contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM! Jendia Gammon published a post on Ko-fi

Welcome two new contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, the @starsandsabers.bsky.social #horror anthology: @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @vincentvenacava.bsky.social! ko-fi.com/post/Welcome...

Featuring stories from

@jonathanmaberry.bsky.social
@emilyrverona.bsky.social
@amandacecelia.bsky.social
@timwaggoner.bsky.social
@saralarner.bsky.social
@marieoregan.bsky.social
@alanbaxter.bsky.social

When Horror Meets Mental Health: This Way Lies Madness An Interview With Lee Murray And Dave Jeffery - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website "This Way Lies Madness" delivers empathetic horror on anxiety, grief, and more. Editors explain its role in destigmatizing mental health via global stories.

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror.

It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview

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“Featuring a historic tale which blends seamlessly into the contemporary narrative like a traditional zhiguai, Yu’s white bone spirit beguiles and terrifies.”

Thank you @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for your lovely blurb of DEMON SONG!! 🥰🖤

Out in 13 days from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀

Fantastic discussion on horror and mental health by the kind folks at HNaC and contributors to This Way Lies Madness. Make this your weekend listening. Free to listen. linktr.ee/HNACPod

This Way Lies Madness: When Horror Meets Mental Health Challenging mental health stigma, "This Way Lies Madness" delivers. Read the Ginger Nuts of Horror take on this thought-provoking anthology.

Flame Tree Press are renowned for publishing fascinating anthologies and @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social have created a powerhouse of an anthology with This Way Lies Madness

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The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks Cover Tom Deady is back with a new anthology loaded with amazing authors, and we have the cover!

We have an exclusive cover reveal for THE RACK II! Check out this great work by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social! Edited by
@horrortom.bsky.social, authors include @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, & more! #booksky

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Absolutely thrilled to appear with my friends Tiffany and Nikky on Horror in the Margins podcast about horror and Grafted. Free to listen.
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Ping @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - and #newzealand -sky! You might be interested in this essay... #nz

@emilyrverona.bsky.social talks about BANGS, her powerful story in This Way Lies Madness! Read the full blog, including a story excerpt, here: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic @flametreepress @flametreepublishing @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @gregchapman.bsky.social

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a wonderful, personal essay for the July collection of essays, about her journey to being the multiple award-winning author she is today (including ONZM!). She frames it around the idea of the fox spirit...

Purple background, white text, which says I am a fox spirit of sorts, although it has only recently been revealed to me in my latest iteration as an Asian diaspora writer of speculative fiction living in the urban wilds of Aotearoa New Zealand. "Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey" -- Lee Murray ONZM

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a beautiful biographical essay about being a fox girl for the Jan-June collection of SI essays. You can read it by subscribing to the journal (getting the ebook for free), or just by buying the book (e- or paper).

www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections

Darkness in the Fields - Midsummer 3 A 5-day online festival of folk horror, with author interviews, talks and writing workshops, taking place just after Summer Solstice.

SILK & SINEW authors @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @sabarazvi.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, and I will be discussing: This Land of Milk and Blood: Asian Diaspora Relationships with Place and the Folk Horror Tradition!
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Sorry, I haven’t. It’s likely to be in the public library system. Or online in archives.

Villages of Grandmothers Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau

Breathless with gratitude at this stunning review of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud from Otago University Press's Robyn Maree Pickens in the latest edition of Landfall.

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“Silk & Sinew is a transcendent collection of horror and identity that engages all the primal emotions rooted in our shared humanity. Many times you will be brought to the verge of tears, many times you will learn the cost of survival, many times you will be made to experience the deepest scars, folklore, and beauty of the Asian diaspora. I learned and felt so much.” —-Jamal Hodge, Bram Stoker Award Nominee The Dark Between The Twilight

Many thanks to Jamal Hodge for these kind words for SILK & SINEW, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social. Available NOW, this acclaimed anthology features @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more--plus a foreword by Monika Kim.

They often get flagged as spam and my website loses credibility, risks being taken down. Plus I have to pay for the additional email capacity.

Lovely!