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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 15h

Book mail from Undertow! I recognise some of those names 🤩 Absolutely love the cover art by Odilon Redon + design by Vince Haig. 🖤 👁️

THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR: VOL 1 curated by Michael Kelly, cover shows art of a man reflected in a iris

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations! This sounds amazing! 👀 🖤 📚

E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 1d

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 23h

Thrilled to announce I’ve got a story in the 20th anniversary issue of Midnight Echo!

My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.

You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG

Midnight Echo Issue 20

Midnight Echo Issue 20 eBook : Young, Marty, McDermott, Kirstyn, Anderton, Joanne, Ashton, Kris, Sampson, Louise, Davis, Matthew, Carroll, Monica, Lovecraft, Charles, McGregor, Brent, Schembri, David: Amazon.com.au: Books

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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Matthew R. Davis @mxrxdx.bsky.social · 17d

Here's the cover for MIDNIGHT ECHO 20, from the Australasian Horror Writers Association, due out next week. Features my story "Coffee, Toast, Garden" and an image by my darling Red Wallflower, plus much dark Aussie goodness!

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 1d

Attended two amazing writing groups this weekend and caught up with friends old and new about their interesting projects, and I of course only took photos of birds and coffee! Magpie trotted alongside me on the path for a while, v friendly despite it being swooping season 🦜🐦☕️

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 1d

You can listen to <5min free readings from many Aussie authors on Narratives Library including my short story “Form a Shape, Besides Yourself” forthcoming in Aurealis 🚀🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒👩‍✈️🤷‍♀️🤱🌌 Thank you Karena Wynn-Moylan and Dr Peter Wynn-Moylan! 🎤🎧

www.narrativeslibrary.com/s-f-fantasy-and-speculative-fiction

Form a Shape, Besides Yourself When a teleportation in space goes wrong a woman finds herself confronted with her doppel-ganger. It falls to the captain of the space ship to decide how to resolve the situation, and she decides to let the woman's family, her husband and three children, decide which version of her to keep. (Forthcoming in Aurealis Magazine issue
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C.H. PEARCE - Jimmy Flip brings his little one to work, and it comes my turn to hold it.

It's not a normal baby. It has tentacles and dangerous vomit! Extract from the short story collection called 'Body of Work' by various authors.

Screenshot from MOUTHWASHING by Wrong Organ of space freighter interior

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Out next week! @gemmafiles.bsky.social's LITTLE HORN includes 14 dark short stories and novelettes, each with an accompanying original full-page illustration by the author.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

Cover art for LITTLE HORN shows the title spelled out in bound sticks on a dark dirt background. Natural bits of earth and nature are mixed in to the dirt. Gemma's author name appears in pumpkin orange with little horns incorporated into the serif typography.

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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Zena Shapter @zenashapter.bsky.social · 4d

Come with me as I journey to Canberra for a long weekend of literary and iconic treats! #conflux19 @csfg.org.au

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 3d

Yay, I always love reading your work, and thank you so much for your wonderful feedback on my projects too! 🖤

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Americo, you are the best! I am particularly enjoying here and tumblr 😆

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 4d

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Submissions – The Bram Stoker Awards

www.thebramstokerawards.com

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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 9d

omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈

Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥

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Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild @csfg.org.au · 8d

It’s Official! CSFG’s latest anthology, “Never Say Die” will launch at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra on November 10th. Come join us for a night of readings and minglings with the writers.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 4d

2024 Australasian Shadows Awards Winners

The winners of the 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards (previously known as the Australia Shadows Awards) have been announced. The award is given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) …

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Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social · 4d

I was awarded a Ditmar for Best Short Story of 2025 for BELLOW OF THE STEAMSHIP COW and another for LET THE CAT IN, the podcast I co-host with Kaaron Warren and J. Ashley-Smith. Ditmars have been awarded annually since 1969, and are basically the Australian Hugos. Congrats all. Deeply honoured.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 5d

Many scholars have connected this text with other things. But the connection I am going to make in this paper will shock you

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 4d

It is SO good! Reminded me of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield in some ways!

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations! 🎉

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations @pegasusunder.bsky.social and @clgslr.bsky.social!!! I was so lucky to get to be a beta reader for this novel and I can’t wait for everyone to experience the wonderful weirdness too. 🍊 📚 ✨

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 5d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 5d

2025 Ditmar Awards Winners

The winners of the 2025 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF have been announced. Best Novel WINNER: The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Serpent’s Tail) Blood Covenant, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance) G…

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 5d

📌 ✨ 👋🏻 Hello friends! Quick intro post/links:

Website: chpearce.net

🖼️ 🛒 inprnt.com/profile/chpearce/

💖 tumblr.com/chpearcewrites

🐦 twitter.com/CHPearceWrites

📸 instagram.com/c.h.pearce/

🧵 threads.com/@c.h.pearce

🙃 facebook.com/CHPearceAuthor/

📚 goodreads.com/chpearce

Rep @clgslr.bsky.social

Short bio
C.H. Pearce is an artist and an Aurealis and Brave New Weird Award-nominated and Ditmar Award-winning writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction from Canberra, Australia. Her short fiction has been published in Body of Work anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more. Find her work and links to her print shop and social media on chpearce.net

C.H. Pearce
@CHP..9/7/2024
Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm an Aussie writer, artist and fan artist. I love writing unsettling spec fic, New
Weird, eco-horror, corporate horror.
Scribbling about doppelgängers, liminal spaces, disaster humans/ entities trying to connect, yearning, and creepy-crawlies.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 14d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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