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WICKED SICK receives six Best-of-’23-Horror mentions
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THRILLED to discover that not one, not two, but SIX of the stories that co-editor Scott Goudsward and I selected for the New England Horror Writers’ Wicked Sick anthology are on the recommended reading list for Ellen Datlow’s 2023 Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen! It’s the highest number of stories selected in a single volume in the Wicked series (and also the only one I edited).
Stephen Mark Rainey—who appeared in 34 Orchard’s Spring 2020 issue with the moving piece “Night Crier”—wrote a generous introduction for Wicked Sick, writing that “these authors reach into your Read the rest of this entry →
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Tags: 2023 The Year’s Best Horror, Catherine Grant, Ellen Datlow, Gevera Bert Piedmont, K.H. Vaughan, L.L. Soares, Meg Smith, Michael Deady, New England Horror Writers, Scott Goudsward, Stephen Mark Rainey, Wicked Creative anthologies, Wicked Sick
Join me for Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday Bash Online next Thursday, January 19!
Posted by kristipetersenschoonover
So thrilled to announce it’s almost time to grab your amontillado and join me and a host of other Poe-enamored writers as we read “The Raven” and “The Bells” in celebration of Poe’s birthday Thursday, January 19, at 7 pm on Zoom!
The event is free. If you’d like the Zoom link, PM me, email me, text me or however you get in touch with me, and I’ll get it right to you. You can also reach out to me through my contact page.
Co-sponsored by the Untitled Open Mic at Lowell Poetry Wheel and hosted by writer Meg Smith, we’ll each be reading Read the rest of this entry →
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Tags: Bettysioux Taylor, Charles Coe, Daemon Manx, Derek Austin Johnson, Diana Saenz, Douglas Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe Birthday Events 2023, Eric Stanway, George Wallace, Gloria Mindock, Jackie Oldham, Janet Egan, Jim Dunn, Juan Perez, Lowell Poetry Wheel, Matt Kraunelis, Meg Smith, Nancy Jasper, Pale Blue Eye, Rafael Alvare, Terrie Leigh Relf, The Bells, The Raven, Tone Balone, Trisha J. Wooldridge, Victor Infante, virtual readings





