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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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Rat update! Difficult to get a non-blurry photo of all 3 as they are v busy! We’ve had them for a month now and they have grown a lot 🐀 🐀 🐀
3 pet rats 3 pet rats 2 rats under a blanket 2 rats under a blanket
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Catching up on one of my fav writing podcasts Going Prose and I’m in this season talking about cons along with amazing writers & fans @aciddropwriting.bsky.social @cztacks.bsky.social Lee Cope, Narelle M. Harris, Stephanie Wood Franklin, Alex Delamer, and Heather Anne Palmer!

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Con Survival Guide - Teaser Going Prose Tacks and Addie have been out and about on the nerdy convention scene, and you should be too! Our guests this season are Lee Cope @whimsyandmetaphor), C.H.Pearce @chpearcewrites), Narelle M. Harris, Stephanie Wood Franklin (@insertscenehere), Alex Delamer @NuaLaoch), and Heather Anne Palmer (@heatherpalmerwriter) Con Survival Guide - Pros and Cons Going Prose Tacks and Addie talk about why you should get involved in cons (by which we mean going to a convention, put away the three-card Monte). Our guests this season are Lee Cope (@whimsyandmetaphor), C.H.Pearce @chpearcewrites), Narelle M. Harris, Stephanie Wood Franklin (@insertscenehere), Alex Delamer @NuaLaoch), and Heather Anne Palmer @heatherpalmerwriter
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Great launch of Lost Souls Issue 2 at Gang Gang Cafe with Ben O’Mara, @cztacks.bsky.social + fantastic dark, haunting readings from @fionnmacpherson.bsky.social S.R. Underschultz, Dr Cobi Calyx, Imogen Wall + music from Brendan Vincent! Excited to have art in this issue 🖤 Cover by Nic Carey 🌱
Ben O’Mara, Imogen Wall, S.R. Underschultz, Brendan Vincent, Dr Cobi Calyx, Fionn MacPherson in conversation at Gang Gang Cafe Lost Souls magazine Issue 2. Cover art by Nic Carey shows a ghostly kangaroo in nature Internal art by C.H. Pearce of figures gaming and drinking together Contributor bios for Dr Cobi Calyx, Ashley Capes, Nic Carey, Madison Lee, Fionn MacPherson, Ben O’Mara, C.H. Pearce, S.R. Underschultz, Imogen Wall
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Dr Coomer, Tommy Coolatta, and Gordon from Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware (HLVRAI) by wayneradiotv posing for a photo mid escape from the facility Dr Bubby from Half-Live VR but the AI is Self-Aware (HLVRAI) by wayneradiotv says I’m going to take a commemorative picture!
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Look what magically appeared in my inbox this morning! Thank you Past Me for preordering (I forgot if I had or not)… Can’t wait to read! How stunning is that cover art by Marcela Bolívar & cover design by Mikio Murakami 🤩 📚

#bookmail #eco24
The Year’s Best Speculative Fiction: ECO 24 edited by Marissa van Uden
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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It’s nearing the end of the year somehow, time for my annual blog post (this is why I can’t have a newsletter) + small awards eligibility post! Drop me a line and I’ll happily send you an e-copy! ❤️ Might have 1 more story out by the end of the year…

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C.H. Pearce awards eligibility 2025 short story "A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate" in Never Say Die (CSFG Publishing, November 2025) art cover art for Rebels & Rainbows (Deadset Press, June 2025) fan art of How Fish Is Made, Yellowjackets, The Book of Bill, The Subway, Archive 8I, "Kookaburra Cruel" by Aaron Dries Watercolour and mixed media artworks of a bird and planets for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (Deadset Press), and fan art of How Fish Is Made by Wrong Organ, Chappell Roan’s The Subway, Aaron Dries’ “Kookaburra Cruel,” Natalie from Yellowjackets, the witches and Vinegar Pete from The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch, and Dan and Ratty from Archive 81 by Dead Signals. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
Colin from What We Do In The Shadows says Yeah, I’m not positive what my deal is either, so I just sort of keep on truckin’.
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Compelled to make a moodboard for every longer project even though my moodpitch on Twitter days are far behind me, thank you lovely writer buddy for teaching me how to use canva 🫡 💖 

I had so much fun writing this weird horror novella 🌊 🐚 🏚️ 😷 👄 📦 👷‍♀️👩‍💻👩‍🔬

#wip
A moodboard showing two women, rabbits, cold tongue, flood cleanup, a lab, shells on a beach, cymothoa exigua, an archive room, and a stairwell in a brutalist facility.
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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art by Madison Lee Martin and gold detail by Charis Anderson. Congratulations @fionnmacpherson.bsky.social @captainamerico.bsky.social @cztacks.bsky.social and the CSFG committee for making this anthology and book launch happen 🌼 💀 🖤 📚 🤩

NEVER SAY DIE purchase link:

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Author Elizabeth Pendragon signing C.H. Pearce signing Americo Alvarenga speaking Fionn MacPherson speaking
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Fantastic anthology launch last night for NEVER SAY DIE at Smith’s Alternative and I had fun reading alongside @merriandrew.bsky.social and Emma Gerts! Thank you everyone who attended and made the night a blast! Great to meet so many of the authors and get my copy signed. Stunning cover 🧵
Never Say Die book cover with an artwork of Death by Madison Lee Martin Never Say Die back cover Author Merri Andrew reading Author Emma Gerts reading
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Attempted to take a terrifying photo for Halloween 🐀 🐀 🐀 🥰

#petrats #rats
A pet rat A pet rat under a hat
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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More pics from Spooky Stories, thank you friends for sharing! 👻
Spooky Stories - C.H. Pearce spooky stories reading at gang gang cafe Writing group
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Great night last night at #SpookyStoriesCanberra at Gang Gang Cafe, thank you #LostSoulsMag for organising, @captainamerico.bsky.social, S.R. Underschultz, and Julia Hood for their fantastic readings and music, and everyone for attending, it was lovely to see you! 👻 🖤 📚 🍻
Spooky Stories reading - Americo Alvarenga and Ben O’Mara (Lost Souls Magazine) Spooky Stories reading - S.R. Underschultz Spooky Stories conversation - Ben O’Mara, Americo Alvarenga, C.H. Pearce, Julia Hood, S.R. Underschultz Spooky Stories conversation - Ben O’Mara, Americo Alvarenga, C.H. Pearce, Julia Hood, S.R. Underschultz
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Book mail! Can’t wait to dig into Midnight Echo Issue 20 (ed. Marty Young) and so excited to have two artworks included! Stunning cover art by David Schembri and I love the eerie, liminal final artwork by Red Wallflower. 🚪👀 📚 🖤
Midnight Echo 20 Internal art of a woman in a bath Internal art of a man in a suit Internal art by Red Wallflower of a doorway
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Meet Dumpling, Snowdrop, and Squeaky Wheekers (named by 9yo and 5yo)! 🐀 🐀 🐀 🥰 They are a few months old and very fast so it’s difficult to get a non-blurry photo

Relatedly my current earworm for weeks now is a mashup of Rats by Ghost and Let It Go from Frozen 🙈 🐀 ❄️
Three pet rats in a box Holding a pet rat Pet rat
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Imagine hating on me and I’m just at home like this
A shinagami from the Death Note manga holds up the Death Note and says Whoopie!
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Quick watercolour fanart of Dan and Ratty from the podcast Archive 81 by Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger! Late to the party as always, I absolutely loved this weird unsettling found footage horror. 🎧 Fantastic cast, loved the pivot to Videodrome meets VanderMeer in S2.
Watercolour and pencil sketch of Dan and Ratty from Archive 81 in a bunker with shelves stacked with canned peaches. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net Watercolour and pencil progress sketch of Dan and Ratty from Archive 81 in a bunker with shelves stacked with canned peaches. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net Watercolour and pencil progress sketch of Dan and Ratty from Archive 81 in a bunker with shelves stacked with canned peaches. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net Jason from The Good Place says Oh, Ariana, we’re really in it now.
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Book mail from Undertow! I recognise some of those names 🤩 Absolutely love the cover art by Odilon Redon + design by Vince Haig. 🖤 👁️
THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR: VOL 1 curated by Michael Kelly, cover shows art of a man reflected in a iris THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR: VOL 1 curated by Michael Kelly, cover shows art of a man reflected in a iris
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Attended two amazing writing groups this weekend and caught up with friends old and new about their interesting projects, and I of course only took photos of birds and coffee! Magpie trotted alongside me on the path for a while, v friendly despite it being swooping season 🦜🐦☕️
Parrot in wisteria Magpie holding a worm Cappuccino
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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You can listen to <5min free readings from many Aussie authors on Narratives Library including my short story “Form a Shape, Besides Yourself” forthcoming in Aurealis 🚀🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒👩‍✈️🤷‍♀️🤱🌌 Thank you Karena Wynn-Moylan and Dr Peter Wynn-Moylan! 🎤🎧

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Form a Shape, Besides Yourself When a teleportation in space goes wrong a woman finds herself confronted with her doppel-ganger. It falls to the captain of the space ship to decide how to resolve the situation, and she decides to let the woman's family, her husband and three children, decide which version of her to keep. (Forthcoming in Aurealis Magazine issue 194) C.H. PEARCE - Jimmy Flip brings his little one to work, and it comes my turn to hold it. It's not a normal baby. It has tentacles and dangerous vomit! Extract from the short story collection called 'Body of Work' by various authors. Screenshot from MOUTHWASHING by Wrong Organ of space freighter interior William Blake’s The Ghost of a Flea
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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📌 ✨ 👋🏻 Hello friends! Quick intro post/links:

Website: chpearce.net

🖼️ 🛒 inprnt.com/profile/chpearce/

💖 tumblr.com/chpearcewrites

🐦 twitter.com/CHPearceWrites

📸 instagram.com/c.h.pearce/

🧵 threads.com/@c.h.pearce

🙃 facebook.com/CHPearceAuthor/

📚 goodreads.com/chpearce

Rep @clgslr.bsky.social
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.
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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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 HONEYEATER by Kathleen Jennings signed Kathleen Jennings and Barbie Robinson in conversation in the Book Cow bookshop Kathleen Jennings and Barbie Robinson in conversation in the Book Cow bookshop
October 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Conflux was a blast! 📚 🚀 🐉 👻 So excited and honoured to win a Ditmar Award in the Artwork category on Sunday night for my cover art for Jessica Nirvana Ram’s incredible poetry collection “in the aftermath” (fifth wheel press). 💛 “Straight to the pool room” as KA Burgess said!
Conflux book haul including DROWNING IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES by Matt Tighe, ROBOT HEARTS by Donna Maree Hanson, LOKI: UNTANGLING A TALE by Leanbh Pearson, THE CURIOUS CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Stephen Herczeg, the Conflux 19: Brave New Worlds convention magazine, a nametag reading C.H. Pearce, a Ditmar Award for Best Professional Artwork, business cards for Scott Steensma and Narratives Library, a bookmark for NEVER SAY DIE anthology launch In the Aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram (fifth wheel press) Forever Young (writing characters of all ages) panel at Conflux 19 with Matt Tighe, C.H. Pearce, Lauren Elise Daniels, Craig Cormick, and Zena Shapter (photo by Scott Steensma) Matt Tighe and C.Z. Tacks at Conflux closing ceremony
October 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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This should be a great night with amazing authors and human beings @captainamerico.bsky.social, S.R. Underschultz and Ben O’Mara at Gang Gang Cafe 6:30pm Wed 22 October! Come along if you’re in Canberra! 👻 🍷 🥘 📚

More info:
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Tix:
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An evening of haunting tales, read by Americo Alvarenga C. H. Pearce S. R. Underschultz SPOOKY STORIES A MACABRE DREAMS EVENG HOSTED BY LOST SOULS MAGAZINE Tickets via Humanitix 6:30pm - Wed - 22 October Gang Gang Cafe - Downer Mulder from THE X-FILES, captioned Do you think I’m spooky?
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Who will I see at Conflux? 🍻📚🐉🚀👻 I will be around the whole long weekend and on 2 panels with these fabulous authors. I’ll have free bookmarks with me if you’d like one, an artwork at the exhibition, and transporting an exciting box of books by @skbalstrup.bsky.social who is overseas!
Conflux 19 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Canberra, 3-6 October Panel: "Forever Young" - 1:30pm Sunday 5 October Writing age-accurate characters can be tricky. Our panellists share how they tackle perspectives outside their own age, deal with dated references, and keep generational voices authentic and relevant. Panellists: Matt Tighe, CH Pearce, Zena Shapter, Craig Cormick, Lauren Elise Daniels (mod) Panel - "Help!" - 3pm Monday 6 October Mentorships can help make or break a career. This panel explores when mentorship can be valuable for up-and-coming creatives, how to find the right mentor, and whether writing is ever truly a solo act. Panellists: Imogen Cassidy, CH Pearce, Joseph Ashley-Smith (mod), Gabiann Marin, Alex Swan THE WAY OF UNITY and BLACK STREAM by Sarah K. Balstrup Bookmarks with illustration of a bird and planets, reading C.H. Pearce author + artist www.chpearce.net Instagram @c.h.pearce Bluesky/tumblr @chpearcewrites Mixed media artwork for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (eds. Austin P. Sheehan and Leanbh Pearson, Deadset Press) for exhibition
October 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM