Sara Tantlinger

I'll be running new interviews on my Substack for Women in Horror Month. Meantime, a rerun of 2025 interviews with Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social, Sapphire Lazuli @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social, Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social, Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social, and Mae Murray (thread)

Happy Women in Horror Month!

Here's a roundup of some of the fabulous interviews, spotlight series, and events that are happening throughout March and beyond!

www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/roundup...

Dark Sisters, Kristi DeMeester Little Horn, Gemma Files The Body, Bethany Morrow Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper Fiend, Alma Katsu Mother-Eating, Jess Hagemann The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim

My book selections for Women In Horror Month

Don't know if I'll get to them all this month, but I'm definitely excited to read each and every one.

Full list in replies but books by @gemmafiles.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social
@almakatsu.bsky.social & more!

#WIHM 💙📚🩸

congrats!!!

Nightmare Magazine Horror & Dark Fantasy Fiction

Today, my poem in the March issue of @nightmare-magazine.com is out, “Zooming Past Shotgun Houses,” on preview, and I need to acknowledge how meaningful this is because I did not think I would be here to see it, and I have. The entire issue is wonderful: www.nightmare-magazine.com 🖤🖤🖤

PLEASE JOIN US FOR: AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY FEBRUARY 28, 2026 | 12–4 A Day Of Books, Community, And Support For Immigrant Rights. Stop by a local bookstore, meet your favorite author, and make a donation. All on-site donations to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota will receive a free signed book (while supplies last). Visit several stores and make a day of it!

AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY February 28, 2026, 12–4 Please join us in supporting Minnesota bookstores and raising money for immigrant rights. Authors will sign copies of their latest books plus offer giveaways (while supplies last) for donations made on site to either the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Support your community and make a day of it! Bookstores & Assigned Authors Avant Garden • JE Joyce • Kristin Nilsen Big Hill Books • Dylann Crush • Mindy Mejia Birchbark Books • Heid Erdrich Black Garnet Books • Bao Phi • Shannon Gibney • Roxane Battle • Aamina Ahmad Comma • Matt Goldman • Tasha Coryell Content • Allen Eskens Cream & Amber • Curtis Sittenfeld • Erin White Drury Lane Books • Sam Tschida Enchanted Quill • Andrew DeYoung • Kathleen West ⸻ Excelsior Bay Books • John Rosengren • James Dawes Hey Darling • Anna Worth • Ruan Willow Inkwell • Jess Lourey • Kristi Belcamino Irreverent Bookworm • Rebecca Kanner • Andie J. Christopher Lake Country Booksellers • Bill Souder • Lorna Landvik Moon Palace • Josh Moehling • Toni Halleen Next Chapter Booksellers • Sarah Stonich • Laurie Hertzel • Neal Karlen Niche • Laurel Osterkamp • Jenney Egertson • Bill Anderson ⸻ Once Upon a Crime • William Kent Krueger • Allan Evans • Patrick Barb Red Balloon • Margi Preus • Stephen Shaskan • Trisha Shaskan • Payal Doshi Scout and Morgan • Judy Kerr • Jessie Chandler • Nickolas Butler Subtext • Wendy Webb • Kate Allen Tropes and Trifles • Annika Martin • Dean Holmes • Jane Hadley Valley Bookseller • Katrina Monroe • Kim Todd Well Read Books • Jeff Shelby • Beth Balmanno

Today’s the day! In Minnesota? Check out one of the indie bookstores listed here for the #AuthorsForMinnesota Day Event. We’re raising $ for Immigrant Law Center of MN & the Women’s Foundation of MN Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. I’m at Once Upon a Crime in Mpls from 12-4. Come say hi!

Looking for something bookish to do today? Come on by and chat horror with us.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

This over the course of 5 days, disrupting lives now and endangering them going forward any time they need to show licenses or IDs.

This while marauding ogres are demanding arbitrary identification or else they lock you up for as long as they like.

And it's the year of a major federal election.

This is extremely dangerous for those who use wish lists for organization & mutual aid. Please share far & wide.

where is justice for Nurul Amin Shah Alam? when will those charged with holding the guilty accountable demand that justice?

The official announcement is out! My book, WOMEN RUNNING FROM HOUSES, will be out in the world February 2028! It’s my nonfiction deep dive into the vintage Gothic Romances widely known for the damsels with great hair running from a dark mansion! I’ll be posting bits and pieces so keep 👀

Thank you so much!!

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Acquired Taste, Clay McLeod Chapman (Titan) Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave) Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions, John Langan (Word Horde) Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan) Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories, Sara Tantlinger (Dark Matter Ink) Superior Achievement in an Anthology Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree) Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand) Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror, Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich, eds. (Black Spot)

Every year we open for a special Anthologies and Collections call, specifically to highlight stories published in those books during the current awards year (and we’ll open again soon).

We’re delighted to see several works we selected in Stoker Awards Final Ballot 🎉

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So rad! Huge congrats!!

Congratulations!!

2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards. Superior Achievement in a Novel Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley) King Sorro…

I got the call from @laneheymont.bsky.social this morning, but this is the first time I've seen it in print: GIRL IN THE CREEK is a Stoker finalist for Best Novel!

I have to look at it again, because it's almost impossible to believe my eyes.

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Big congrats, Cina!!

Congratulations!!

Thank you, Micah! 🙂

ahh thank you, and to you!!

🥰

To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor.
Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.

So exciting! Congrats!!

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I am honored and honestly a bit stunned that CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS is officially a Bram Stoker Award finalist! What do you mean my little book is nominated alongside the powerhouses of Hailey Piper, Gemma Files, John Langan, and Clay McLeod Chapman?? Wild. Huge congrats to all of the nominees!

a photo of Hailey Piper holding her Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection Teenage Girls Can Be Demons. Beneath is a screenshot of the Fiction Collection ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards as follows: Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Chapman, Clay McLeod — Acquired Taste (Titan Books) Files, Gemma — Little Horn: Stories (Shortwave) Langan, John — Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions (Word Horde) Piper, Hailey — Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (Titan Books) Tantlinger, Sara — Cyanide Constellations (Dark Matter INK)

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist! 🤩😈

I'm ECSTATIC to see my demons nominated and overjoyed to be on the ballot with the wondrous Sara Tantlinger, John Langan, Gemma Files, & Clay McLeod Chapman 🎉 congrats to the Fiction Collection finalists & everyone on the final ballot!

Absolutely stunned but Global Indigenous Horror has made it to the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot! Thank you to everyone who believed in this book, and congratulations to everyone on the final ballot! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/h...

@upmississippi.bsky.social

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asia… Named by the New York Public Library as one of the best…

I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees.

Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Love that our demons and poison stars are dancing together!! Congrats, my sweet friend! 💖