Michael E. Diaz

Thanks for the suggestions 🙌🏼

Solus 🤔 Not sure it gives a strong sense of the book

The physical manifestation of historical repression on an island community - gothic literary horror

Done! I’m in talks with the agent about the title, hence the question

Thanks Elle! I was quite into long sprawling literary titles, but the feedback I keep getting is preference for single word titles.

Helpful thank you!

1st draft down of my literary speculative fiction novel - now I’m rethinking the titles. Thoughts. Single word titles, or multi-word titles?!
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The door sliced her in half. He couldn’t speak, trembling deeply. Her face, the waxing half, caught every inimical shadow. Even the pores across her nose looked moon-like. And her lace front dress, yellowed frayed edges, reaching. “You look well, Mum,” he said. #WriteCBC @cbcreative.bsky.social

The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!

One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.

This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.

Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com

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The publishing world has been kind. You can find my latest/upcoming publications, awards/accolades, and there might even be a novel on the way. Get ready, the absurd is coming: michaelediaz.com

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I've been absent (sue me). I've been a busy bunny- novel course with @cbcreative.bsky.social, shortlisted by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, confidentially a finalist at a lit mag in New York & a publication forthcoming in Indiana. Social media? Pa! #authors #writers #litfic #booksky #promosky

Gore is one way. But I’d argue you can have gore without horror. So don’t lean on gore to provide horror- it won’t work. Horror is…horrifying. It’s often existential, its loss of control, over our bodies, life, mind, the world, the cosmos. The terrifying things that we have little control over.

MISSION SUBMIT UPDATE-to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2025. 57 rejections, 41 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 3 published & 1 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.13, & Publish Rate of 1 in 19, predicted 9 more pubs- all in top 118 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙

Going shockingly well thank you! Novel in the wings, and short stories coming. Might make a career out of this yet 🤔

@eliarieh.bsky.social wanted to say hi! I think you must have read my first chapter as part of the Retreat West competition a while back, my (now very different book) Splinters From Boxes. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

I like both. And write in both.

Submissions update: Mission submit to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2024. So far, 50 rejections, 31 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 2 published & 2 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.14, and a publish rate of 1 in 25, all in top 120 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙

ps. if you've made it through too, let's connect!

My short story Dog Toothed is a quarterfinalist in the ghastly Killer Shorts competition. Let's all howl in celebration. Careful, it bites. #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙michaelediaz.com

Congrats! I got through too

Congrats! I've just found out I've placed too. Good luck!

Would have loved to have read it, doesn’t appear to be in your feed?

a man in a star trek uniform is clapping his hands in front of a starry sky ALT: a man in a star trek uniform is clapping his hands in front of a starry sky

I should say this more, but to all the parents with F/T jobs, kids, and trying to manage a writing career at the same time, it is not easy I KNOW, so WELL DONE to us all #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙

The smell of sour bodies hit Christie like a tepid slap. Their breathing hidden, moved only by the gasping door, signalled the scarce greeting. Placing her bag down, it stuck to the flytrap floor that had claimed magazines, pizza boxes and a buzzing Nokia 3310.
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Thanks so much Arthur

Thanks David. Writing is definitely persistence!

Mission submission: targeting the top 100 lit mags this year, top to bottom. So far 12 rejections, 2 from the top 20, giving praise & requesting more work. 8 standard rejections, & 2 top-tier rejections. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙

Youre welcome!

Dog Heaven, Stephanie Vaughan; Playing with Dynamite, John Updike; Roy Spivey-or-Metal Bowel, Miranda July; Barn Burning, Haruki Murakami; And Only I Remain, Michael E. Diaz (me!)

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