Dan Coxon
@dancoxon.bsky.social
He/him. World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Shirley Jackson Awards finalist. Unquiet Guests out now.
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Still blown away by the fact that Heartwood won a World Fantasy Award last night. Such a fantastic weekend at the World Fantasy Convention, topped off in spectacular style. Wonderful to meet @joe-hill.bsky.social and @ericlarocca.bsky.social too. Now, back to work!
Tomorrow night in #London! I'll be teaching a workshop on incorporating play and experimentation in your writing, using the artworks of Alice Sielle (on display in the shop!) as inspiration. 7pm, Bard Books, E3. Full details and tickets here:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tomorrow night in #London! I'll be teaching a workshop on incorporating play and experimentation in your writing, using the artworks of Alice Sielle (on display in the shop!) as inspiration. 7pm, Bard Books, E3. Full details and tickets here:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
Today I'm on the Write and Wrong Podcast, talking about our series of Writing... books from Dead Ink, ways of worldbuilding in fantasy fiction, and the rather chaotic path I've taken through publishing. Maybe give it a listen!
www.writeandwrong.co.uk/home/episode...
www.writeandwrong.co.uk/home/episode...
The Write and Wrong Podcast
Join us as we chat with our amazing guests from the world of professional storytelling. Authors, agents, directors, game devs, editors, journalists, screenwriters and everything in between!
www.writeandwrong.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Today I'm on the Write and Wrong Podcast, talking about our series of Writing... books from Dead Ink, ways of worldbuilding in fantasy fiction, and the rather chaotic path I've taken through publishing. Maybe give it a listen!
www.writeandwrong.co.uk/home/episode...
www.writeandwrong.co.uk/home/episode...
A reminder that ARCs of my collection Come Sing For The Harrowing are available now on NetGalley. Physical ARCs from @clashbooks.bsky.social (I have a couple of copies too, if you're in the UK). Weird folk #horror for all you strange people.
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A reminder that ARCs of my collection Come Sing For The Harrowing are available now on NetGalley. Physical ARCs from @clashbooks.bsky.social (I have a couple of copies too, if you're in the UK). Weird folk #horror for all you strange people.
Book news! Publishing October 2026, COLLECTIVE presents a group of essays by leading editors on the art of editing (and curating) anthologies. Just look at the cumulative experience behind this one - everything you've ever wanted to know about putting an anthology together!
It gives us great pleasure to introduce Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and Pete W Sutton! Find out more about the project and the amazing contributors in our post! 💙
Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies
Is it is with great pleasure that we welcome to the Luna Family, the editors and authors of Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies, edited by Dan Coxon and Pete W Sutton.
www.lunapresspublishing.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Book news! Publishing October 2026, COLLECTIVE presents a group of essays by leading editors on the art of editing (and curating) anthologies. Just look at the cumulative experience behind this one - everything you've ever wanted to know about putting an anthology together!
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Unquiet Guests - 10 smashing stories. From Dead Ink Press, edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Unquiet Guests - 10 smashing stories. From Dead Ink Press, edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social
Just a reminder for those of you who have already started buying Christmas presents: Unquiet Guests makes a wonderful gift, and absolutely will not creep out your loved ones.* Available now from Amazon, Waterstones, and all good bookshops.
*Not legally binding.
*Not legally binding.
November 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just a reminder for those of you who have already started buying Christmas presents: Unquiet Guests makes a wonderful gift, and absolutely will not creep out your loved ones.* Available now from Amazon, Waterstones, and all good bookshops.
*Not legally binding.
*Not legally binding.
It's a little under two weeks until my writing workshop at Bard Books #NorthLondon. I'll be joined by artist Alice Sielle, using her artworks as inspirational jumping-off points for exercises incorporating play into our writing. Details via the link below!
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's a little under two weeks until my writing workshop at Bard Books #NorthLondon. I'll be joined by artist Alice Sielle, using her artworks as inspirational jumping-off points for exercises incorporating play into our writing. Details via the link below!
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
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Um, yes, please...
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Um, yes, please...
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
Those of you who use Audible should know that UNQUIET GUESTS is now also available as an audiobook. Not as pretty as the gorgeous hardback edition, but easier to stick in your ears.
www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Unqu...
www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Unqu...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Those of you who use Audible should know that UNQUIET GUESTS is now also available as an audiobook. Not as pretty as the gorgeous hardback edition, but easier to stick in your ears.
www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Unqu...
www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Unqu...
A quick plea for help: if you've read and enjoyed Unquiet Guests, please leave a review on Amazon! We're currently sitting on a big fat ZERO reviews, despite strong sales. Let your opinion be heard!
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A quick plea for help: if you've read and enjoyed Unquiet Guests, please leave a review on Amazon! We're currently sitting on a big fat ZERO reviews, despite strong sales. Let your opinion be heard!
Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder).
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
248. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm — Backlisted
Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick ( Veep , The Thick of It ) joins Andy and Una for a discussion of Marc Behm's surreal thriller The The Eye of the Beholder (1980). David ...
www.backlisted.fm
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder).
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...
It's a little known fact that if you leave 13 copies of UNQUIET GUESTS unattended overnight, they will assemble themselves into the arcane structure known as 'the Green Lodge'. Bad news for booksellers, but those of you buying a single copy for yourselves - or one for a friend - have nothing to fear
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It's a little known fact that if you leave 13 copies of UNQUIET GUESTS unattended overnight, they will assemble themselves into the arcane structure known as 'the Green Lodge'. Bad news for booksellers, but those of you buying a single copy for yourselves - or one for a friend - have nothing to fear
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Hiya Womble. Last week I finished Ian McDonald's The Wilding, which was all the peat bog fun. And right now I'm enjoying Dan Coxon's Unquiet Guests anthology very much.
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hiya Womble. Last week I finished Ian McDonald's The Wilding, which was all the peat bog fun. And right now I'm enjoying Dan Coxon's Unquiet Guests anthology very much.
You should do this.
My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
You should do this.
COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!
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Just read the first story from this anthology from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social. Love @dancoxon.bsky.social’s intro - was inspired to jot some ideas down for first time in months.
Then there’s I am the House by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social
Woah! 👏👏👏
Can’t wait to read the rest …
Then there’s I am the House by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social
Woah! 👏👏👏
Can’t wait to read the rest …
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just read the first story from this anthology from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social. Love @dancoxon.bsky.social’s intro - was inspired to jot some ideas down for first time in months.
Then there’s I am the House by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social
Woah! 👏👏👏
Can’t wait to read the rest …
Then there’s I am the House by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social
Woah! 👏👏👏
Can’t wait to read the rest …
Lovely review of UNQUIET GUESTS over at Critical Popcorn. "...a veritable eerie indulgence of stories".
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/10/31/u...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/10/31/u...
Unquiet Guests review – Edited by Dan Coxon [Dead Ink Books]
Featuring 10 unique authors, Unquiet Guests is an ideal gathering of creepy stories which focus on the reshaping of the ‘house’ as a being in itself, with all the secrets, the stories a…
criticalpopcorn.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Lovely review of UNQUIET GUESTS over at Critical Popcorn. "...a veritable eerie indulgence of stories".
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/10/31/u...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/10/31/u...
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Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson!
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Blood in the Bricks
Blood in the Bricks eBook : williamson, Neil, Slatter, Angela, Bennett, James, Whates, Ian, Major, Tim, Fahey, Tracy, Cluley, Ray, Coxon, Dan, Lakin, Kim, Jones, Penny: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson!
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3)
@donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social
When I received the World Fantasy Award on Sunday, I was exhausted. A week away from home will do that to you. So here's a sanitised version of my acceptance speech, for those of you who missed it. Plus, you get to see the award. Again.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
World Fantasy Awards 2025 - Best Anthology, Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology #worldfantasyawards
YouTube video by itsacoxon
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November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
When I received the World Fantasy Award on Sunday, I was exhausted. A week away from home will do that to you. So here's a sanitised version of my acceptance speech, for those of you who missed it. Plus, you get to see the award. Again.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
Everyone else is sharing their Joe Hill photos from the World Fantasy Convention, so I might as well join the party. This was taken on Sunday morning, which explains why I look exhausted (Joe looks kind of tired too). He'd just bought a copy of my anthology UNQUIET GUESTS, gent that he is.
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Everyone else is sharing their Joe Hill photos from the World Fantasy Convention, so I might as well join the party. This was taken on Sunday morning, which explains why I look exhausted (Joe looks kind of tired too). He'd just bought a copy of my anthology UNQUIET GUESTS, gent that he is.
Still blown away by the fact that Heartwood won a World Fantasy Award last night. Such a fantastic weekend at the World Fantasy Convention, topped off in spectacular style. Wonderful to meet @joe-hill.bsky.social and @ericlarocca.bsky.social too. Now, back to work!
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Still blown away by the fact that Heartwood won a World Fantasy Award last night. Such a fantastic weekend at the World Fantasy Convention, topped off in spectacular style. Wonderful to meet @joe-hill.bsky.social and @ericlarocca.bsky.social too. Now, back to work!
Well now. It appears I won a World Fantasy Award. I knew I should have put a shirt on.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Well now. It appears I won a World Fantasy Award. I knew I should have put a shirt on.
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Here’s @davebjeffery.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @joannacorrance.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social and @jsbreukelaar.bsky.social reflecting on the intersection of gothic, horror, romance, sci-fi and more - that thing we know as weird fiction. It’s the sort of thing that leaves you unsettled.
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here’s @davebjeffery.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @joannacorrance.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social and @jsbreukelaar.bsky.social reflecting on the intersection of gothic, horror, romance, sci-fi and more - that thing we know as weird fiction. It’s the sort of thing that leaves you unsettled.
4pm today! Copies of brand-new haunted house anthology UNQUIET GUESTS, and collection of essays on crafting fantasy fiction WRITING THE MAGIC. Grab the books and get them signed!
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
4pm today! Copies of brand-new haunted house anthology UNQUIET GUESTS, and collection of essays on crafting fantasy fiction WRITING THE MAGIC. Grab the books and get them signed!