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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 16d

It was a pleasure to have a dialogue with Michael LaPointe and @mikethorn.bsky.social on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, and finding liberation in failure.

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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Nothing human should be alien to us." - Gemma Files ❤️

Myth, Fetishism, & the Horror of Living in an Allistic World w/ Gemma Files

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Aug 5

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water.

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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · Aug 4

Listen to our latest episode!

We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more.

@emilyabanks.bsky.social

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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · Jul 23

@MiriamRicher.bsky.social reviews Dead Writers, a new fiction project from Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum, which Richer calls "a series of literary case studies in the lies we tell ourselves in order to go on living": ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers

Read Miriam Richer's "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · Jul 11

Listen to our latest episode!

We chat with Naben Ruthnum about character generation, TV brain, interpreting first-reader notes, and so much more.

tinyurl.com/CWE19NR

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Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social · Jul 9

I really love this @craftworkpod.bsky.social conversation because it could still be going on, rolling, curving, branching everywhere as it goes. tinyurl.com/4nef5hrr Thanks as ever to @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social

Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja by Craftwork

In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more. Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction...

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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · Jun 26

"If You Knew Me is a twisty, gripping psychological thriller that isn't afraid to raise the issue of morality. Are we victims or co-conspirators? A novel you'll be thinking about for a long time." - Alma Katsu, author of Fiend

S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · Jun 3

IF YOU KNEW ME is available to NetGalley members, and it could use more ratings and reviews at NetGalley and Goodreads. Also available to pre-order almost anywhere. It's a psychological thriller about obsession and identity. (I have reason to believe the audiobook edition is going to be awesome.)

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Jun 30

Special thanks to @rodmoo.bsky.social for the epigraph inspiration! tinyurl.com/ws4yeyzc

Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ Rod Moody-Corbett

Craftwork · Episode

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Jun 30

I had the honour of writing on DEAD WRITERS for @ex-puritan.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to read and review
@invisibooks.bsky.social's mesmerizing collection of horror-tinged novellas.

ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers

Read Miriam Richer's "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

ex-puritan.ca

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Jun 30

Special thanks to @rodmoo.bsky.social for the epigraph inspiration! spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/d9up7qUtrUb

Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ Rod Moody-Corbett by Craftwork

In this interview, we chat with Rod Moody-Corbett about tonal dissonance, sponging up influences, writing from memory, and so much more. Rod Moody-Corbett is an award-winning writer from Newfoundland....

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Jun 21

Check out my latest feature for In Review Online, "The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema." I went long on horror cinema's depictions of writers, focusing on Clarke's Exposé, Kubrick's The Shining, & Kurosawa's Loft.

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The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema | In Review Online

A new film essay entitled The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema for film review site In Review Online.

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · May 3

Very excited to share the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Sarah Bernstein about the abnegation of self, generating meaning, Fredericton memories, and much more.

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · May 1

OK, it's *really* available to order! Get your hands on THE WEIRD: A Companion, coedited by Kristopher Woofter & Carl Sederholm.

Contributions from Thomas Ligotti, Eugene Thacker, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and many others! Also included: a new little piece by me.

www.peterlang.com/document/132...

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Apr 4

Very excited to announce that @augursociety.bsky.social will soon be publishing "Chlorophilia", a work of epistolary weird fiction that @miriamricher.bsky.social & I co-wrote together!

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Mar 26

Contributor copies have arrived! Very grateful to be included.

All sales donated to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico.

Buy: tinyurl.com/2hx67s4d

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Mar 26

the beast himself!

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blackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · Mar 20

Issue #28 of Black Fox Lit is here! It's been a total privilege getting to read work by amazing writers then put them all together in one issue. We hope you enjoy #28! Cover by the amazing Britnie Walston! What do you all think? 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/ #litmags #writingcommunity #booksky

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Mar 11

Contributor copies have arrived! Thanks to pulp MAG for publishing my new story, "Dread Robin."

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Mar 14

My new story "Hell is a False Abyss" is included in this anthology, edited by Juan Valencia, concept by @valeriecomplex.bsky.social.

All sales go to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Also feat. @saderotica.bsky.social, Alissa Nutting, and many others.

BUY: a.co/d/g8RHVDH

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Mar 10

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social for an engaging conversation with the wise, charming, and brilliant @spmiskowski.bsky.social. We chatted about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more.

tinyurl.com/CWS01E17

Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Feb 9

We ( @mikethorn.bsky.social & I) learned sooo much about craft from the brilliant @fparker.bsky.social . I highly recommend "Hi, It's Me" (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social); it truly is ~ a heartbreaking work of staggering genius ~

Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Feb 8

Listen to the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social!

@miriamricher.bsky.social & I talked with the brilliant @fparker.bsky.social about editing challenges, genre distinctions, and her latest novel Hi, It's Me (among other things).

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Feb 1

Last summer I went on an early-2000s teen movie bender, and it inspired an interactive HTML narrative. Check it out in @overexposedlit.bsky.social Issue 3!

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · Jan 31

excited for the release of my early-2000s-teen-movie-inspired html fiction 'experience' ;)

Over/Exposed Lit @overexposedlit.bsky.social · Jan 31

@miriamricher.bsky.social appears in Issue 3 with"Homesick," a beautifully tragic interactive narrative. Miriam's work has appeared in Plenitude, carte blanche, and she is the co-host of the @craftworkpod.bsky.social podcast.

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Over/Exposed Lit @overexposedlit.bsky.social · Jan 31

@miriamricher.bsky.social appears in Issue 3 with"Homesick," a beautifully tragic interactive narrative. Miriam's work has appeared in Plenitude, carte blanche, and she is the co-host of the @craftworkpod.bsky.social podcast.

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