Sophia Adamowicz

I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.

So glad you enjoyed!

Sophia Adamowicz (@sophiaadamowicz) Did your parents ever try and terrify you with a cautionary tale?

Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour?
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From our latest issue 🦝
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
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In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
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Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/

The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.

Would read! #BluePit

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A moodboard with a cave in the background, eight pictures and a title in the middle: The Brink, a folk horror. Beginning in the twelve o' clock position, the pictures show a bawdy interaction at a seventeenth-century inn, a woodcut of a devil offering a cup to a figure in bed, an underground cavern, a man screaming, a cave system, the entrance to a deep pothole, a rotting sheep and a hillside in the Peak District.

Slewfoot X The Lamb

Derbyshire, 1642. A young woman, tasked with securing human sacrifices for a guzzling mouth of hell, falls in love with the ideal victim—putting her family and the entire village at risk.

#BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND #H

Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed.
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Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*

My two pence on the Salt Path scandal: the passages on the natural world were often beautiful, but I was disturbed by the anti-medical bias running through the narrative. As someone who's struggled with depression and anxiety, I've heard plenty of bullshit on the miraculous healing powers of nature.

Horror is getting nastier. Can you stomach it? Cannibalism, carnivores and cat murder are the new norms in horror fiction

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Brilliant story! I like how it pulls the rug from under your feet more than once

Great story! So much complex emotion in a small package

Delighted to have not one, but two pieces in this summer's volume of @trashcatlit.bsky.social! 'Wixton Fen' is inspired by a very real place nearby, where I ran with some buddies last summer. It was vast, beautiful and lonely...
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Now I’m not allowed to say which of these titles is mine (if you know, you know), but I’ve been shortlisted for the I Am Writing horror comp!

No worries! Comes with the Eastern European territory

Thrilled to be three-times a trash cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐀🦡

Munching on handfuls of dry granola straight from the box like some kind of bourgeois horse is one of life’s greatest pleasures

Thrilled that @wishbonewords.bsky.social has accepted my flash fiction piece, 'Trial by Water'. It comes from a deep place. I can't wait to share it with the world.

Note to self: don’t store demon Halloween decoration in the attic and then forget you’ve put it there

Sorry to hear about the publisher woes! Such a shame with the amazing work you put in.

Very excited to have both a flash fiction and a short story in this anniversary issue! 🐀

Academia preys on people too scared or desperate for a career to challenge the system. Speaking up is the right thing to do.

Hey everyone, I’m Sophia. I write folk and gothic horror, as well as black comedy and dark women’s fiction. Horror is, for me, something of a safe space in which to explore trauma and anxiety. It’s also escapism and nostalgia. #horrorwriterschat

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YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic A Hellhole In Derbyshire with Sophie Sawicka-Sykes

Come to a hellhole with us!

An excellent and really interesting talk on the history and legends of the hole including, but not limited to, murderers chucking their victims in (or not), aristocrats dangling peasants in, and some beautiful illustrations from cave explorers

youtu.be/vMPeOarW-VI

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic A Hellhole In Derbyshire with Sophie Sawicka-Sykes

Delve into an infernal pit with me! Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole, Eldon Hole, has a fascinating history and lore. Writers including Thomas Hobbes and Daniel Defoe stared into its fathomless depths, while locals told tales of murder and madness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPe...