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Elena Sichrovsky
@esichr.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 she/they/it
🪦 writing horror is cheaper than therapy
📘 debut chapbook EATING OUT ANNE SEXTON with Ghost City Press
🌐 https://www.elenasichrovsky.com/
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award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
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if you're on the fence: the sale of these anthologies does a lot. this year, profits from 1 full-price anth sale are able to pay 3 contributors to next year's publications!
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!

You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!

fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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MONSTROUS ANGELS is out!

Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.

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Monstrous Angels: An Anthology of Religious Horror
An Anthology of Religious Horror
bookshop.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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It was way too early in the morning when I first reposted this so I didn't say anything but this is one of my favorite stories I've ever written and I stuck with it through 37 rejections and it would mean a lot to me if you'd take a look. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥
Day 12 dawns of TTL's retrospective re-read with Rise by @probablyharmless.bsky.social; in a world where children are born blank below the waist and must choose a gender at 13 Ash chooses otherwise.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Obsessed with this one by @esichr.bsky.social from HAD (I forget if I’ve shared it before, but it’s so good it’s definitely worth sharing twice!)
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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since it's that time of year, here's a list of my free-to-read award eligible works. links will be below. read and/or nominate something to please the eternal worm (or not, he's not your boss & neither am i)
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I did the thing :)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Admit it, you want to win a Cummie.

The most important award in the horror industry is open for nominations until the end of the month. Publishers, authors—I'm going to need you to step up and tell us about your favorite books.

forms.gle/ye4fmWyuyhd6...
The Dead Languages' Cummies
For the second year in the row, we are proud to announce the annual Dead Languages' Cummies award. What are the DLP Cummies? The Cummies will juicily celebrate horror authors and presses. These a...
forms.gle
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Is it an awards eligibility post? Is it a retrospective? I dunno, but here it is. I published some words this year. Check it out. (If there is anything you'd like to read and can't find, let me know and I'll get it to ya!) 🫀
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Weird Year in Review:
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!

Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🥁 It's Pushcart time! 🥁

Almost impossible to choose again, but here are our 2025 nominees:

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju
Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff
Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan
Deliver by Safiya Cherfi
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
check out my piece here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
🌈📚🪐💙
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
in love with my haul from @ascalaphid.com - shipping was so fast and these lil critters are my fave lil guys
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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When you feel a story with your whole dang heart, and realize now's as good a time as any for a cathartic cry and fist shake at the universe ...

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

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They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
two new releases that i didn't expect to love but they delivered
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Just finished reading They Promised This Would be Beautiful by @esichr.bsky.social

It was amazing!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

I hope to see the PDF version in the future for the proper formatting ^_^

#WritingCommunity #ReaderSky
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
ALL HAIL THE BLACK FLAME this book made me fall in love with novels again @scumbelievable.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
finally catching up on posting after being offline/ill/travelling
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM