Rebecca Summerling (she/her)

The cover for Gore Poetics, Stories by Samir Sirk Morató. The cover features glistening intestines with two black pearls at the center. The text is a dark pink and flows with the texture of the intestines.

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!

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Two reviews! One very positive, one pretty negative! But which?!?

Starspeaker, my story about an eternal cosmic apocalypse—and the dysfunctional mother & daughter trying to end it—lives in this issue!☄️❤️‍🩹 proud to be part of this killer line-up & to have my words behind such a gorgeous cover

I am fucking *delighted* that a magazine found something worth sharing in a nauseating, unsavory tale about a failing restaurant. More so that that magazine was Seize the Press. Even more so that it sits alongside the most wicked cover and some profoundly unsettling weird fiction.

This is such a stacked issue and I am incredibly excited for everyone to read these stories!!

Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch

Contemporary Gothic Review 31 is an online literary review.

I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...

@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Wow thank you so much for such a thoughtful and spot on write up of my night jar! Really appreciate your thoughts

Sounds great doesn't it?!

I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!

Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

Signed up for this the moment I saw it!

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.

20/25 Vision: Looking Back (Thoughts & Lists) It’s the 29th of December as I write this newsletter. Believe it or not, it’s snowing here in Buffalo. On top of that bit of normalcy, winds are hitting 70...

In my newsletter, I talk about 2025 books, movies and shows I loved, but also short fiction! You can find the list with links in the back half, with great work by
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more

I just DMd you and realised you wouldn't be able to see it 🫣 I'll DM you my email address on twitter!

20/25 Vision: Looking Back (Thoughts & Lists) It’s the 29th of December as I write this newsletter. Believe it or not, it’s snowing here in Buffalo. On top of that bit of normalcy, winds are hitting 70...

I was inspired by everybody being thoughtful and looking back on the year, so I did the same thing with my infrequent personal newsletter.

Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.

Thank you Leigh!! Hope you've had a nice Xmas!

Happy belated birthday Karlo!!

Ahhh so glad! Thanks Rex!!

"The Monument" by R L. Summerling. Picture depicts an abstract shape against a blue sky with clouds

"It was a comfort, the professor said. Just for a while, no one could remember who was alive and who was dead."

Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year

www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

Beautiful piece, so visual and immersive. Sadness like flowers sprinkled through it.

Thank you so much Faith, that's so lovely!! Hope you're doing well ❤️

i will never stop. i will never moderate. i will never treat anyone forcing this shit down the world's throat as though they are anything but antisocial wreckers divorced from even the most cursory understanding of beauty and joy

"The Monument" by R L. Summerling. Picture depicts an abstract shape against a blue sky with clouds

"It was a comfort, the professor said. Just for a while, no one could remember who was alive and who was dead."

Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year

www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

Still from Tokyo Godfathers, showing a woman in a dark coat and skirt, black hair blowing in the wind, stark against a snowy rooftop. She is holding a baby, and looks alone against the blankness of the snow, her feet making a small path in the white. We cannot see her face.

TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), for a Christmas movie, surprising echoes of PERFECT BLUE & Satoshi Kon's darker work, the cruelty of the world fracturing people's selves, leaving jagged edges that wound others. Making our 3 broken heroes putting themselves between the world & a baby all the more moving.

Amy Boucher Hi there, This month, I’m walking 50 Miles for Dementia UK – a cause close to my heart. Just £10 could pay for the telephone costs of two families calling its free Dementia Helpline, so any sup...

I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia.

He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!

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What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!

2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...

What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!

My Books of the Year, 2025 – Part 1 I seem to say this every year, but 2025 really has been a great reading year for me. From new releases to treasures from the TBR to brilliant reissues and rediscoveries, the books have been excelle…

New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading.

Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY

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Christine Lai on thinking beyond the self, the veneration of violence, and making art in a collapsing world | Seize The Press Magazine Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon

New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes

We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world