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@sidellwrites.bsky.social
Author & Librarian 📖 Novice Poet 🎶 Lover of all things Horror 😱 Animal Friend & Pet Mom 🐈🐢🐦🐕 INFJ ♠
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Loving this gift from a coworker. It's 100% me 😍
January 22, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Loving this gift from a coworker. It's 100% me 😍
First acceptance of the year! 🤩
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January 19, 2026 at 10:53 PM
First acceptance of the year! 🤩
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Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
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Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
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January 19, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
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Hi #QueerWritersChat! My debut full length poetry collection, Time Travel Is Easy, is a rumination on Deep Time, queerness, dinosaurs, and life here at the end of the Anthropocene. It’s available on Am*zon and Itch, with more options to come. Links on my site:
mimulus.weebly.com/books.html
mimulus.weebly.com/books.html
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Hi #QueerWritersChat! My debut full length poetry collection, Time Travel Is Easy, is a rumination on Deep Time, queerness, dinosaurs, and life here at the end of the Anthropocene. It’s available on Am*zon and Itch, with more options to come. Links on my site:
mimulus.weebly.com/books.html
mimulus.weebly.com/books.html
Never used it. 😁
I have my ideas in my head, and for research I use real sources.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Never used it. 😁
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I have my ideas in my head, and for research I use real sources.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I have my ideas in my head, and for research I use real sources.
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Time Travel Is Easy, my full length collection of Deep Time poetry, processing queer embodiment in the Late Anthropocene (with dinosaurs), is now available on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
Time Travel Is Easy by Rick Hollon
Poems of Deep Time, queer embodiment, and life in the late Anthropocene.
dinoholler.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Time Travel Is Easy, my full length collection of Deep Time poetry, processing queer embodiment in the Late Anthropocene (with dinosaurs), is now available on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
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YEAR SEVEN
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January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
YEAR SEVEN
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A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐
Comment for links to the full versions!
Comment for links to the full versions!
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐
Comment for links to the full versions!
Comment for links to the full versions!
The latest murder victim. No clue who the culprit might be 👀
January 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
The latest murder victim. No clue who the culprit might be 👀
Starting off the year with a BANG!!!
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Starting off the year with a BANG!!!
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Free download of WORLDS OF POSSIBILITY Vol 2 available including my story, “Gargoyle Girl.” 🖤 Happy New Year!
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
A gift to end 2025 — Worlds of Possibility Volume 2!
This second volume collects short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles from the August 2023 to June 2025 issue run of Worlds of Possibility.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Free download of WORLDS OF POSSIBILITY Vol 2 available including my story, “Gargoyle Girl.” 🖤 Happy New Year!
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I’m delighted to share that two of my poems are available in the latest issue of SpecPoVerse, released today! Many thanks to Miguel for choosing to include “March Ghosts” & “on becoming a constellation.” 😸
I’m delighted to share that two of my poems are available in the latest issue of SpecPoVerse, released today! Many thanks to Miguel for choosing to include “March Ghosts” & “on becoming a constellation.” 😸
Specpoverse
Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I’m delighted to share that two of my poems are available in the latest issue of SpecPoVerse, released today! Many thanks to Miguel for choosing to include “March Ghosts” & “on becoming a constellation.” 😸
I’m delighted to share that two of my poems are available in the latest issue of SpecPoVerse, released today! Many thanks to Miguel for choosing to include “March Ghosts” & “on becoming a constellation.” 😸
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This is always such a fun concept to write about, and I’m ecstatic that one of my stories was chosen this year!
Thank you Craig and Weird Christmas!!!
This is always such a fun concept to write about, and I’m ecstatic that one of my stories was chosen this year!
Thank you Craig and Weird Christmas!!!
2025 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology (old Contest; new Anthology) Show
It is finally here! Or listen at the Podbean site or your favorite podcast app. Twenty-two stories out of over 300 entries this year. And, remember, since it’s just an anthology, we don’…
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December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This is always such a fun concept to write about, and I’m ecstatic that one of my stories was chosen this year!
Thank you Craig and Weird Christmas!!!
This is always such a fun concept to write about, and I’m ecstatic that one of my stories was chosen this year!
Thank you Craig and Weird Christmas!!!
I'm celebrating Christmas Eve by submitting my first poetry manuscript into the publishing world.
Fingers crossed.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Fingers crossed.
Happy holidays, everyone!
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December 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm celebrating Christmas Eve by submitting my first poetry manuscript into the publishing world.
Fingers crossed.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Fingers crossed.
Happy holidays, everyone!
This has been a strange year in the writing world with the majority of acceptances happening at the start & end, bookending a TON of rejections. (My acceptance rate for 2025 just jumped to 4% 😅.)
Last night, I experienced a rarity: two poems accepted by a journal!
More details forthcoming 😸
Last night, I experienced a rarity: two poems accepted by a journal!
More details forthcoming 😸
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This has been a strange year in the writing world with the majority of acceptances happening at the start & end, bookending a TON of rejections. (My acceptance rate for 2025 just jumped to 4% 😅.)
Last night, I experienced a rarity: two poems accepted by a journal!
More details forthcoming 😸
Last night, I experienced a rarity: two poems accepted by a journal!
More details forthcoming 😸
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YEAR SEVEN
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#HORROR #SCIFI #DARKFANTASY #bookcommunity #readingcommunity #shortstory #bookbloggers #horrorbooks #tbrpile #bookblast #bookworm #blackharepress
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
YEAR SEVEN
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Due to various circumstances, I have regretfully decided not to proceed with publishing "Repetition" through Graveside Press.
However...
Good news is in the wind!
However...
Good news is in the wind!
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December 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Due to various circumstances, I have regretfully decided not to proceed with publishing "Repetition" through Graveside Press.
However...
Good news is in the wind!
However...
Good news is in the wind!
Story acceptance!
Something weird this Christmas comes... 🤩
Something weird this Christmas comes... 🤩
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December 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Story acceptance!
Something weird this Christmas comes... 🤩
Something weird this Christmas comes... 🤩
Delightful surprise in the mailbox tonight... a copy of BFS Horizons, featuring my poem, "the sheperding"! 🤩
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Delightful surprise in the mailbox tonight... a copy of BFS Horizons, featuring my poem, "the sheperding"! 🤩
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Time for my eligibility post for 2025. Only one story this year, but I add to it my first published poem, and the work Jennifer and I have done as co-editors for Trollbreath Magazine (we put out four issues this year, which makes us eligible for awards).
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2025 Eligibility Post - Jeff Reynolds
2025 Eligibility Post
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December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Time for my eligibility post for 2025. Only one story this year, but I add to it my first published poem, and the work Jennifer and I have done as co-editors for Trollbreath Magazine (we put out four issues this year, which makes us eligible for awards).
www.trollbreath.com/2025/12/02/2...
www.trollbreath.com/2025/12/02/2...
Ohhh... an acceptance! I cannot wait to share more details! 😸
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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Ohhh... an acceptance! I cannot wait to share more details! 😸
When you wait a full year to send a query and then receive a form rejection within 5 minutes...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When you wait a full year to send a query and then receive a form rejection within 5 minutes...
I'm so honored to have another poem featured in this lovely journal!!
I hope you'll enjoy this fairytale retelling 😸
I hope you'll enjoy this fairytale retelling 😸
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I'm so honored to have another poem featured in this lovely journal!!
I hope you'll enjoy this fairytale retelling 😸
I hope you'll enjoy this fairytale retelling 😸
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It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26!
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October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26!
sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
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