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Hazel Zorn

@hazelzorn.bsky.social

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Writer and oil painter. "No Excuses for AI Art" in Blood Knife. Fiction in Dark Matter INK: The Off-Season. REEF MIND out now from Tenebrous Press. hazelzorn.com

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · Sep 9

OUT NOW: my debut novella with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! The coral reef becomes sentient and invades the surface world, mutating all life. 🔥🪸🪸🔥 Pick up your copy today! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ree...

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 21h

Crashing out because we have destroyed the human experience of looking up at the night sky

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad a picture of Spam made it into the collage 😂❤️❤️

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 12d

The Night Ship is up on Netgalley for those of you so inclined! Reviewers, friends, enemies, anyone, if that's not accessible for you drop me a line, I *am* keeping a list of who has asked and will be dropping emails shortly. ♥️

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness.
But something hungry lurks below...

THE NIGHT SHIP BY ALEX WOODROE
PREORDERS OPEN! Coming January 20, 2026 from Flame Tree Press

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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Karen Daigle @karendaigleart.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hydrangeas in Glass, 11”x14”, oil

#artcollectors #blueskyartists #artlovers #artoftheday #oil #artgallery #oilpainting #artinspo #art #wip #fineart

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 1d

Voidcon was a real one. 🤘 Here's something for you: rocking @alexwoodroe.com 's jacket.

Michael Boulerice in a jacket at Voidcon, living it up.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 2d

Voidcon 3 is done. I feel like each year is a refinement and so each year is the best year. We, and I mean every one of you who shared time with us, are why this community is special. Thank you. We are cocreating something unique and wonderful and I’m grateful for it and for you 🖤 my heart is full

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 2d

One of the best readings I've ever heard: the rage, the heartbreak, the overwhelming wave of terrible imagery. I was shaking. I am convinced that Joe is a once in a lifetime talent.

Incredibly grateful that I experienced this in person.

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 3d

This weekend at Voidcon 3 I walked the battlefields in Gettysburg before the festivities experiencing an unexpected sense of outrage & loss, and shared a piece of writing about war that terrified me to speak. The creators I met inspired me and gave me the courage to do this reading. Thank you all.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 15d

Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!

"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."

godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 2d

It was so cool meeting you! 🔥

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 2d

All the books and zines I got at @voidcon.bsky.social in two glorious images.

A stack of books on a table!

Top to bottom:
Bodypunk (Filthy Loot)
Fleischerei by Saoirse Ni Charagain
Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager
The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
Backmask by OF Cieri
Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth by Mark Jaskowski
Burn, Beautiful Soul by William J. Donahue
The Organization Is Here to Support You by Charlene Elsby
Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn
We Like it Cherry by Jacy Morris
Till We Become Monsters by Amanda Headlee
Only Monsters Remain by William J. Donahue
Feeding the Wheel by Michael Boulerice.

A bunch of zines laid out on an end table in two rows. Left to right, top to bottom:
The Makeitstop (Please): A Gnostic Nightmare by Jason Baltazar
Scream Zine by Sara Century
Lesbian Vampire Zine by Sara Century
Who the FUCK is junkyard ambrose?
LIBER BXIII by junkyard ambrose
GORE 3
Foul Black Rookeries: Stories by David Simmons

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to everyone at @voidcon.bsky.social ! I'm overwhelmed and grateful for the reception REEF MIND is getting. 🪸❤️

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 4d

We’re nothing without awesome people.
Hanging at @voidcon.bsky.social with REEF MIND’s @hazelzorn.bsky.social
(Pic by @michaelboulerice.bsky.social)
🪸💀

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 6d

I'll be entering the VOID tomorrow 😎 🤘

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 7d

My 9-yo and I wrote the cover story for Interzone #303, and we've created this handy synopsis using legos. Pictured: shark wearing a mech suit made of pirate shipwrecks, attacking a surfer on a chainsaw board. Oh, it gets weirder.

Check it out: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 10d

THIS IS OUR FINAL SCHEDULE. PLEASE NOTE THE AFTERPARTY IS VIP ONLY

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 10d

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly bless any educator doing battle with modern-day attention spans

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 11d

I was just thinking that. The comic book Punisher kills cops! Brutally!

Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 12d

I love my little coral guy 🪸❤️❤️ ty for all of your support friend 🫂

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 12d

"The future is what we do now"

When @hazelzorn.bsky.social sold her coral eco-horror novella to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social I was so excited! I sponsored a baby coral for her🎉

Her book is cool (get it!).
Saving coral reefs is cool (check out their new video!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-8...

We Are Coral Gardeners - Film 2.0

YouTube video by Coral Gardeners

www.youtube.com

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 12d

yeah I do think we need to oppose this technology with religious zeal

404 Media @404media.co · 13d

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

‘I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AIdog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances.’

www.404media.co

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 12d

This is so cool!!

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 12d

"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun

Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026

Clash Fall 2026 Alex Woodroe (photo of the author wearing a tenebrous press shirt and wielding a mean rusty axe)

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 13d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

tenebrouspress.com

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 13d

Oh wow, I wasn't aware of the book! I'll definitely put it on my list-- something to look forward to. Thanks so much!