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Cottage in the Woods

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🌙 Joel. Reviewer, poet, artist, chef, and Forest Monster from Wellington, NZ (he/him) Poems in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, Semaphore, Aotearoa Yearbook, Eunoia Review, and Stone Circle. 2nd place for the 2025 Muriel's Journey Prize.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · Jan 26

📚 My 2025 Reading List: A bookish adventure of woods, monsters, folklore, cosmic horrors, and magic. 📚

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 1h

Writing tip: pull out old stories and/or poems from years ago and give them a tweak. You don't know it yet, but you've grown. 🖊

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15h

New theme lands tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Don’t post early—Friday to Thursday only. Give the mess its moment. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Get sharp prompts sent direct: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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Awkward

Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 6h

Forget Hot Girl Summer, it's time for Unspeakable Horror That Lives in the Woods Autumn.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 6h

Unfamiliar view from a new home office, this rougarou has a new hunting ground...

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After a long writing hiatus, finally working on new poems...

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 1d

Book #75 "The Elusive Truffle" is an autobiography of a food writer. Mirabel is on a quest to discover the traditional cuisine of France, documenting seasonal recipes, old crafts, and historic kitchen tools—before they vanish beneath a wave of quick, bland, modern food.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 1d

Book #74 "A Game in Yellow" is a cosmic horror about a play that drives people insane if they read it. Hastur, the Yellow Sign, and lost Carcossa, oh my! This was a wild ride of a book. I binged it in 2 days flat. By the end, I was already imagining what an A24 film would be like...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 7d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Book #73 "Black River Orchard" is a botanical horror about a cursed apple orchard—and how the people who eat its fruit begin to change. This is a Big Ass Book, but the writing kept me hooked. Plus, Wendig is a master at character writing. Spooky, folkloric, and delicious.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 5d

Book #72 "The Eyes Are the Best Part" is a body horror novel about a Korean American student who begins to fantasize about blue eyes—and how they'd taste. Fucking amazing, an original, witty, and uncomfortable story of a female serial killer that drips with "good for her" vibes.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 5d

I'm thinking of writing a book of poetry that places a terrible curse on whoever reads its pages, slowly driving them mad. Wonder if I should start promoting it on booktok? 😒 🤔

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 5d

Very honoured to be nominated for Best of Net 2026 💚 Thanks @stonecirclereview.bsky.social

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 6d

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 17d

Fool me once...

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 18d

Not falling for this again

A not-at-all sinister small concrete tunnel in a hillside with 'HUGS' scrawled above the "entrance"

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 18d

Book #71 "Hunt for the Shadow Wolf" was an audiobook that kept me company through hours of packing house. A non-fiction book about the search for Britain's lost wolves, taking us on a journey through genetics, folklore, history, and the author's personal experience with raising captive wolves.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations on a curated feed, it's a thing to be proud of.

*side eye at The Internet*

Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 18d

To be fair, most of Earth's population is in the Northern Hemisphere, so people forget things work differently in the south

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🎨 Winifred Cayley Robinson

Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 18d

🌼 Happy Ostara 🌸 Today is for starting over, making wishes, building a brighter future, and planting seeds to hide the bodies buried in shallow graves in your garden. Blessed be.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 18d

How cats celebrate the autumn equinox

🎨 Cécile Berrubé

Illustration of cats dancing around a bonfire in the woods. The artist is Cécile Berrubé.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 18d

There should be a Black Mirror episode about how teaching square dancing in schools was always a mind control exercise to reprogramme your neural pathways through kinaesthetic movement. Because, y'know, that'd be fun