Story Hour

Color photo of writer Randee Dawn, a fair-skinned woman with large blue eyes and blonde hair worn long and curled, with bangs. She wears a black dress with white cuffs and sits in front of a blurred background of leaves. She smiles tenderly at the camera, perhaps because she is holding a red fox to her chest. The fox is looking around.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Jennifer Hudak, a fair-skinned woman with straight, gray-threaded brown hair worn at shoulder length. She wears a brownish-red top with crochet sleeves and poses before a blurred interior background that includes tile wall and light wood. Her shoulders are square to the camera, but she looks up and to one side, smiling warmly.

This Story Hour, two favorites return! Randee Dawn and Jennifer Hudak help us bid goodbye to this sanest time of the year (Standard Time). Join us for Story Hour Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @randeedawn.com @jenniferhudak.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Excellently spooky, and with a beating heart. Go ahead and watch!

Two very different kinds of hauntings delivered via StoryHour last night!

YouTube video by Story Hour February 25, 2026 Story Hour: Ai Jiang and Cynthia Gómez

This Story Hour, Ai Jiang and Cynthia Gómez showed us what horror stories can do. We started with a heartbreaking ghost story and ended with hard-hitting social horror. You can still watch! @aijiang.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social youtu.be/QLbAuC6vQOI

JOIN USSSSSSSS!

So, so, so good!

Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Cynthia Gómez, a woman with fair skin and clear light-brown eyes. Her long, curly hair, which dark and threaded with silver, is parted on the side. She wears a purple tank, long earrings, and minimal eye makeup. She stands in front of a plastered wall and looks directly into the camera with a faint smile.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Ai Jiang, a woman with fair skin and dark eyes. A breeze stirs her long, glossy hair, which is dark with a dyed light-blue streak and parted on the side. She wears a windbreaker that might be dark green and stands in full sunlight, with water behind her and a few trees in the distance. She looks to the side and slightly down, grinning at what she sees.

Ready for some spooky stories? Cynthia Gómez and Ai Jiang have you covered! Join us for Story Hour Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

We love you, too! So proud of our guests!

We DO get phenomenal guests!

Isn't it, though?

Funny, that's the same word I use to describe such lists from a reader's point of view: wealth!

Everyone else doubtless feels the same!

Story Hour promo graphic with a picture of me and Cynthia Gómez!

Coming this Wednesday at 7pm PST/ 10pm EST on @storyhour.bsky.social with @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social 👀‼️🤍 Join us for some spooky stories 👻

Several writers from Kristy Park Kulski's Bram Stoker Award-nominated antho SILK & SINEW have read on Story Hour. Congratulations to @geneveflynn.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, @robertarjoyan.bsky.social, @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, & @aijiang.bsky.social! (3/3)

...Story Hour congratulates these guests nominated for a 2025 Bram Stoker Award: @ledaniels.bsky.social, @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, and @patrickbarb.bsky.social! But wait, there's more! (2/3)

Congratulations to all the 2025 Bram Stoker Award nominees, including Story Hour guests @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @gemmafiles.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @wnwagner.bsky.social, and... (1/3) bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/h...

Literally less than half an hour, but so I think I needed that extra thirty minutes just to recover. You can still watch!

A devastation that felt at once very personal and very, very widespread.

YouTube video by Story Hour February 18, 2026: Meg Elison and Kemi Ashing-Giwa

This SF-focused Story Hour may be our shortest ever, but it's just as powerful as any longer one! Meg Elison and Kemi Ashing-Giwa brought us tiny tales with big ideas under personal microscopes. An essential half-hour of stories! @megelison.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social youtu.be/mPXDRKZleGw

It was an incredible evening. Also one of our shortest Story Hours yet. So much power in such short stories!

TONIGHT! Join us!

Wednesday night!

Black-and-white photo of Kemi Ashing-Giwa, a Black woman with a natural worn short on the sides and tall on the top. She wears a fine-gauge crew-neck sweater in a light tone and lip gloss. They sit on a chair or sofa with an upholstered back, in front of a light source (a curved window with panes, or perhaps a translucent tent?). She is turned with her face in three-quarters view as she looks attentively toward something or someone off-camera. Their eyes are focused, creased at the corners as part of their warm, broad smile.

Color photo of Meg Elison, a fat and fair-skinned woman with brown eyes and short, curly black hair. She wears a red-and-white colorblock dress, a silver key on a chain around her neck, and red lipstick. She stands before a neutral backdrop and smiles knowingly, looking directly into the camera.

Would you like someone to read you a good story? You’re in luck! This week, Story Hour’s guests are Kemi Ashing-Giwa and Meg Elison! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social
www.storyhour2020.com

...congratulations to yet more Story Hour guests on the Locus list, including @rati.bsky.social, @bpladek.bsky.social, @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social, and @thesuiway.bsky.social! You are all awesome! (4/4)

...other Story Hour guests with works on the Locus Recommended Reading List include @aimeeogdenwrites.com, @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @wiswell.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @mariahaskins.com, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @isabel.kim, @marissalingen.bsky.social, and... (3/4)

...congratulations also to Story Hour guests @casskhaw.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @vanessafogg.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @kristinaten.bsky.social, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social, @somtoihezue.bsky.social, @jordankurella.com, @wtalabi.com and... (2/4)

2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

The Locus Recommended Reading List is out! So many great reads here. Congratulations to all with work on the list, including Story Hour guests @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and... (1/4) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Check out the replay! I read a 4000-word, one-sentence story about weddings, Witches Sabbat, and the Devil (and his *fundament*) and, yep, it's as fast-paced demented as it sounds. Then Somto gets serious and powerful - a nice counterpoint.

Anyway, I refuse to listen to myself read, but you should!

YouTube video by Story Hour February 11, 2026 Story Hour: Gordon B. White and Somto Ihezue, w/guest host Rebecca Gomez Farrell

This Story Hour started with the terrifying true story of guest host @becca.gomezfarrell.com's allergies...and continued with fiction! @gordonbwhite.bsky.social read juicy wedding horror, and @somtoihezue.bsky.social read heartbreaking fantasy/horror. You can still watch! youtu.be/qdgH7yOj1Zs

Gordon is too modest. It's going to be phenomenal.