Maggie Slater

THREE QUESTIONS: Erin Darrow In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. In a dy…

Better late than never! I finally posted the last (but not least!) interview with fellow HOPE: The Thing with Feathers contributor Erin Darrow!

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Hey! The interview I did with the excellent Benjamin Gorman and editor B. Morris Allen (and fellow contributors Lisa Fransson and Louie Sullivan, whom I've also interviewed on my site!) is now live!

THREE QUESTIONS: Jade Scardham In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. The fly…

Just put up the second-to-last interview with HOPE: The Thing With Feathers contributor Jade Scardham!

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THREE QUESTIONS: H.L. Fullerton In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. Stunnin…

Just put up my latest interview with HOPE contributor H.L. Fullerton! "When an Angel Molts" is an emotional cry of empathy in a world with far too little of it.

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This was so much fun! Thanks so much to @notapipe.bsky.social for putting this together!

Aw, thanks! I'm so glad you liked it! :D

THREE QUESTIONS: Frances Pauli In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. In &#82…

New interview up with HOPE contributor Frances Pauli! Her beautiful story "A Touch of the Wind" is an insightful meditation on what it means to be truly free and unbound.

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THREE QUESTIONS: Gabrielle Contelmo In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “…

Just put up a new interview with co-contributor Gabrielle Contelmo about her beautiful story, "What We Had Left," in HOPE: The Thing With Feathers.

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THREE QUESTIONS: Chloe Smith In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. In &#82…

New interview up with Chloe Smith, author of "The Letter Writers" in HOPE: The Thing with Feathers. This story will charm anyone who has a soft spot for Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES or Hayao Miyazaki's surreal magic in SPIRITED AWAY.

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THREE QUESTIONS: Anna Orridge In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “The La…

New interview with co-contributor Anna Orridge up! Check out her story "The Lay-by-rinth" in HOPE: The Thing With Feathers anthology! This sweet story will be right up your alley if you're into hope-punk and non-binary romance.

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FRIDAY FLASH: Domestic Black Holes (690) All she wanted was a couple hours to herself...

New Friday Flash up on Substack! This one’s rather dark, isn’t it?

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THREE QUESTIONS: Lisa Fransson In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “For Al…

My interview with fellow HOPE: The Thing With Feathers contributor, Lisa Fransson, is now up on the blog! You'll like her story if you love crows and have ever wanted a meet cute with a gentle-spirited mountain man.

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Hey! My creepy grief story about tombstones is out! :D

THREE QUESTIONS: Louie Sullivan In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “…

@maggiedotwrites.bsky.social's HOPE anthology interview with Louie Sullivan

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I'll have to check some of these out! Loved Caveat, Oddity, and Fréwaka, and enjoyed All You Need is Death, too!

THREE QUESTIONS: Rachel Ayers In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “…

Just put up a mini-interview with Rachel Ayers, fellow HOPE: The Thing with Feathers contributor! Her story "Queen of Crows" would be perfect for you if you enjoy Angela Carter's dark fairytales mixed with Miyazaki-esque characters and world-building.

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THREE QUESTIONS: B. Morris Allen In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. “A Bird…

Just posted a new interview for HOPE: The Thing with Feathers, featuring author and editor B. Morris Allen!

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Cover for Hope: The Thing With Feathers anthology - Blue and red and orange swirls like feathers.

Got a chance to talk to fellow HOPE: The Thing With Feathers (from Plant Based Press) contributor Martin Westlake! Loved his story "Going Home," about a scientist recruited to investigate a mysterious shard from the Tunguska meteor region.

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My irreverent superhero on her period story "Any Day But Today..." is out now as an audio reprint at StarShipSofa! It's read by the fabulous @hardrockhope.bsky.social and they do an AMAZING job capturing K.C.'s snarkiness and Terachno's worminess! 😃 So fun!

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Oooo, my sentient bread story, "Gluten Breath" is now up at The Core Review! This story is for you if you like realism mixed with absurdity, are sick of diet-in-disguise wellness culture, and/or you just really like bread!

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METALLIC REALMS: An Interview with Author Lincoln Michel! I’m a sucker for metafiction that incorporates footnotes and faux academic rhetoric, so when I first heard about Lincoln Michel’s Metallic Realms, I knew I needed to check it out. Metalli…

I got a chance to talk with Lincoln Michel about his new book about sci-fi writers, toxic group dynamics, and space opera, METALLIC REALMS!

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This is a great list--and a reminder that just because something doesn't have a five-star/100% rating doesn't mean it isn't a freaking fantastic fit for you!

This is great! I've been meaning to do a similar list of underrated horror films that are in what my husband and I call our "Goldilocks Zone" of 7-8.5 or 65-89% on various movie sites. There's amazing, niche stuff out there that can feel like 100% to you, even if not to a general audience!

BOOK DRIVE FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH No Borders is partnering with a local librarian to bring requested books to youths ages 12-18 who are incarcerated at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn. To help, you can: • Buy books from our Bookshop.org registry • Donate funds to The Rolling Library • Donate gently used paperback young adult novels, manga, and comics wishlist: tinyurl.com/2025bookdrive donate funds: tinyurl.com/tridonate contact: nobordersbooks@proton.me

last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

This one is a lot of fun!

Puppies are so hard! It’ll get better soon, but I swear my guy was a literal raptor until 1 and is much settled by 2!

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Ooo, I just discovered 5CALLS.ORG, which will tell you 1) Who your representatives in Congress are (Senators and Reps), 2) what their phone numbers are, and 3) Give you a script for calling them about a number of issues concerning you! For someone with scrambly-brains this is great!

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Once You Get the Message, Hang Up the Phone An exploration of social media's shortcomings in enacting material change.

Really loving Spencer R. Scott's newsletter, As If We Were Staying. This one especially hit home between the ribs.

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Doing some light sketches while watching FLY on Hulu.

Ah! The most classic of IT solutions! I’ll have to try that again.