Kathryn Reilly

Tell me this is your favorite month without telling me it’s your favorite month. #horror #horrorcommunity #sppokyseason #witches #ghosts #monsters
I’ll go first:

My library stocks awesome horror; I read @wnwagner.bsky.social’s new eco-horror Girl in the Creek in a single sitting. It’s beautiful and creepy and captivating. Oh, the Strangeness!! Remember: the holidays are coming—put it on your lists! I hope it gets a movie option; it’ll be horror eye candy.

Ready for an exorcism twist? Head over to the Mythos Minute Podcast for a fright!

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

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This is one of my favorite anthologies as well!!

Deep Sea Dirge - The Hyacinth Review i. aquariums fail to house the ocean’s threatened lamenting, seas still ii. littered sandy floors host aquatic genocide ghosts’ bones settling iii. tides break the bones sending sharp fragments ashore...

Another #poem spotlight for National Poetry Month. This oceanic piece found a home at @hyacinthreview.bsky.social head over to read other amazing poems!

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Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

Some of my fav poems for NPM! Support indie and read the antho Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas. Other dark dreams by
@gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @christinasng.bsky.social @gerrileen.bsky.social

Crimson Salt | Seaside Gothic Fiction by Kathryn Reilly from Issue 5 of Seaside Gothic, a quarterly print magazine from the edge of the sea.

One of my favorites flashes is now available to read for free online! Check out “Crimson Salt” published by Seaside Gothic. Lmk your favorite image!

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🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

joy from inside out is dancing with her arms in the air and saying yay ! ALT: joy from inside out is dancing with her arms in the air and saying yay !

Short story acceptance!! Arriving later this summer is a mythical meeting between a modern girl and long-forgotten creatures working together to resurrect magic in the ordinary world. Here’s to hope in darkened spaces.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

For the Bluesky folks. Please share with the writers and artists you know! Find out more at quarterpress.com #litmag #opensubmissions #opencallforwriters #opencall #artwanted

#poetry lovers, why not head over to read some brilliant poems about rare, threatened, and endangered species? I was humbled to be part of this project, “Against Absence” raising awareness of creatures we’re losing in my state. Enjoy and share!

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Hey #Booksky if you’re in the US and looking to step away from the zon for physical books can I highly recommend Thrift Books?

They donate and partner with non-profits to support school libraries in underserved areas, and prison libraries. Plus, the book prices are *very good*

www.thriftbooks.com

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Seeking magical winter stories #booksky? Grab this #indie antho and enjoy my #fantasy story “A Grave Welcome” following Melinoe, the goddess of ghosts. @marisca.bsky.social ‘s story “Thread & Needle” is one of my favs in the collection. Lmk your favorite story in the collection!

a skeleton with red eyes is laying on a tree branch and says `` unicorn !!! '' . ALT: a skeleton with red eyes is laying on a tree branch and says `` unicorn !!! '' .

❤️ The Last Unicorn :)

#Writingcommunity! This a great #indie press to work with. If you’re considering subbing, check out their previous #fantasy antho Beneath the Yellow Lights and enjoy my pixie revolt story “An Audacious, Tricksy Plot”. This superhero antho will be awesome—let’s send in some great stories!!

Love #dragons? You can read 60+ dragon #drabbles on KU for free, or a 2.99 paperback and support @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social
an #indie press. Enjoy my stories “The Longma’s Hope”, “Golden Gifts”, “The Lambton Wyrm”, and “The Dragon Hunter”. Follow to find out which evolved into a short story!

@microcosm.bsky.social is an awesome indie press! I love this antho—we all need a bit more chlorophyll in this wintery and chaotic time 🌱❤️If you love #plants and #speculative and #feminist and #inclusive stories, grab a copy of this beauty today!!! #readers #writingcommunity

Just a reminder that supporting your #local farmers’ CSA yields giant veggies in your order ❤️❤️❤️ #CSA #farmtotable

We've got something fun coming up on Kinkstarter.... I mean, Kickstarter... tomorrow-

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You can find my last publication of 2024, “Corpse Medicine”, in the Winter issue of Chthonic Matter Quarterly. Fact: wealthy people imported mummies to eat them. Look at this beauty!!!
#horror #writingcommunity #mummies #facts

Happy to be sharing the TOC with you; it’s an amazing issue!!

New year. New social media!

That moment when you’ve perfected your submission for an open call closing on 2/1 and you click submit only to be greeted with “Quota Met”. UGH
#writingcommunity #poetry #writinglife