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Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 7d

Reading submissions for Issue 11 until November 1st.!

#writingcommunity #litmag #publishing #callforsubmissions #art #literature

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 1d

It's Indigenous People's Day so here are some recs for some Indigenous horror authors you may not have read yet. Get on it, friends.

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 1d

Jennifer Hudak is our next Author Spotlight for This Exquisite Topology! angrygablepress.com/2025/10/13/j...

Jennifer Hudak

Author Spotlight This Exquisite Topology

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 3d

“It has been found again.
What ? - Eternity.
It is the sea fled away
With the sun.”

—Arthur Rimbaud

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 5d

Enjoy these stories of werewolves, zombies, and horror romance.

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 11d

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back”

—Anais Nin

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13d

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.”

—Haruki Murakami

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 16d

I heard you were looking to read diverse horror this spooky season.
Did you know I publish women writing horror? The easiest way to support my work in to join my Bindery for free. The best way is to join for $5. boozhoo.binderybooks.com

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13d

ACCUTE 2026 Call for Papers!

I am co-organizing a panel on "Indigenous Horror: Generic Disruptions" with Krista Collier-Jarvis.

The submission DEADLINE is 21 November 2025. See full guidelines:

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2026 Call for Papers < ACCUTE

CALL FOR PAPERS ACCUTE 2026 Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) 4 – 7 June 2026 DEADLINE: 21 November 2025 The 2026 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teach...

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13d

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2026 Call for Papers < ACCUTE

CALL FOR PAPERS ACCUTE 2026 Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) 4 – 7 June 2026 DEADLINE: 21 November 2025 The 2026 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teach...

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13d

ACCUTE 2026 Call for Papers!

I am co-organizing a panel on "Indigenous Horror: Generic Disruptions" with Krista Collier-Jarvis.

The submission DEADLINE is 21 November 2025. See full guidelines:
accute.ca/2026-call-fo...

accute.ca

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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 13d

🕷️ Horror isn’t just scary—it’s cultural.
Our spooky-season books trace Poe, Romero, slashers & spectral storytelling across traditions.

📖 Discover the scholarship of fear. buff.ly/hK45CrV

#SpookySeason #UPMississippi

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 15d

“‘to live’ and ‘to dream’ are at every point synonymous;”

—Jorge Luis Borges

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 15d

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”

—Jorge Luis Borges

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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · 15d

#microinterview We’re joined by @nsborwein.bsky.social, author of the wonderful poem “The Void 𝘐𝘴 in a Playful Mood Tonight” in The Future Fire #74, to talk about alienation, transmateriality, and writing. press.futurefire.net/2025/09/micr...

Micro-interview with Naomi Simone Borwein

We’re joined by Naomi Simone Borwein, author of the wonderful poem “ The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight ” in The Future Fire #74, to ta...

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 15d

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Micro-interview with Naomi Simone Borwein

We’re joined by Naomi Simone Borwein, author of the wonderful poem “ The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight ” in The Future Fire #74, to ta...

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 16d

Katabatic Circus Volume 2 closes to submissions in just a couple of days. It is shaping up to be a beautiful volume. Get your last minute submissions in! angrygablepress.com/katabatic-ci...

Katabatic Circus

Open to submissions for volume 2 until September 30, 2025. *** New themed call for volume 3 coming soon. ABOUT KATABATIC CIRCUS Katabatic Circus is an annual poetry anthology, published in print an…

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 18d

Happy to announce the feature poet for Katabatic Circus Volume 2 is Michael A. Arnzen!
@mikearnzen.bsky.social

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 20d

Naomi reads a poem returns!

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“So You Will Go” by Naomi Simone Borwein

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 25d

Available at Barnes and Noble and other independent bookstores.

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This Exquisite Topology: a collection of happy abstractions|Paperback

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Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social · 27d

Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com

Gothic Selves/Artificial Others

18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 29d

My poem “So You Will Go” is included in this stunning issue of Suburban Witchcraft Magazine.

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 29d

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 10 is now Live!
Read at : suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

We hope you enjoy exploring this issue brimming with #art, #photography, hymns, remnants of a wounded Summer reintroducing itself to the Autumn’s gold with #poetry, #stories and a #drama play.

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · Sep 15

Delighted to have two poems in this beautiful issue!

The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social · Sep 15

Surprise! Issue #5 of The Argyle just dropped!!! Many thanks to all our amazing contributors, especially digital artist Paul Warren for yet another awesome cover.

Enjoy!

www.theargylelitmag.com

The Argyle Literary Magazine

The Argyle seeks to blur the lines between genres and strips the labels off your “little darlings,” offering an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and distur...

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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is your fault, witch.
It had a voice like rusty chains.
And cracking joints.

#SFpoetry

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The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight, Naomi Simone Borwein

This is your fault, witch.

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