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C.H. Pearce

@chpearcewrites.bsky.social

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Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 2d

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

Website: chpearce.net

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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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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 18h

Congratulations!

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations!

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Zena Shapter @zenashapter.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 22h

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

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

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

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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

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

Congratulations! 🎉

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

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 · 2d

📚 🧡 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 · 2d

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…

locusmag.com

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11d

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

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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…

strangehorizons.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

If you never want to eat mushrooms ever again, here's a great list of mushroom horror -- errr, sporror -- novels:
reactormag.com/creeping-fun...

Creeping Fungus: Nine Works of Sporror - Reactor

If you love mushrooms or just want some creepy reads to add to your TBR, this list is for you!

reactormag.com

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Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to be joint winner of the Shadows Award for Poetry with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! My poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue," (BESTIARY OF BLOOD: MODERN FABLES & DARK TALES, @crystallake.bsky.social, ed. Jamal Hodge) was honoured alongside Lee's collection, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD.

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Kaaron Warren @kaaronwarren.bsky.social · 4d

Great inspirations and conversations at Conflux, and I won three Ditmar Awards!
Best Novel, The Underhistory
Best Collection, Calvaria Fell with Cat Sparks
Best Fan Publication, Let the Cat in Podcast, with Aaron Dries and Joseph Ashley-Smith

Not only that, I won an art award! Best amateur 3D!

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Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social · 3d

In exciting news my Murderbot essay 'Nice Safe Emotions' from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social won the William Atheling Jr Award over the weekend! So unexpected and exciting!

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

Congratulations! Can’t wait to read! 🦹 💖 📚

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 4d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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

Great book launch last night for @tanaudel.bsky.social ’s Queensland gothic novel HONEYEATER with Barbie Robinson at the Book Cow! Loved hearing about the interplay between Kathleen’s visual art and writing, and how much fun the gothic is. How stunning is that cover too 🥀 🪲 🖤 📚

HONEYEATER by Kathleen Jennings on a bookshelf. The cover shows a woman covered in flowers which appear to be growing from her, bugs, and a bird

Kathleen Jennings and Barbie Robinson in conversation in the Book Cow bookshop

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

Thanks Lily! 😃 💛