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Sophia Adamowicz

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Writer of dark fictions//Faber Academy alumna//work published in Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys, Haven Speculative and more//co-founder of Artemis Writers UK Former medievalist sophia-adamowicz.wixsite.com/website She/they 💗💜💙

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social, for nominating my weird little flash fiction story for the Genrepunk Awards! This is my first award nomination, and I am truly humbled.
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · 24d

The third and final part of my spooky cultural history of Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole:

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The history of a hell hole

Part 3: Once more into the deep

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Part 2 of my history of Eldon Hole, featuring dastardly deeds under cover of darkness
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The history of a hell hole: Part 2

Murder at the mouth of Hades

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 31

This month, two cavers became trapped down the deepest chasm in Derbyshire. But they were far from the first to descend into a living nightmare...
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History of a hell hole

Part 1: The first descent

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 29

First rain of August
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 26

The real-life setting of my folk horror novel is causing real-life mischief! Glad everyone was okay in the end. @romgothsam.bsky.social you might (not) appreciate this:

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Explorers trapped 60m down in Peak District cave

They were stuck inside the cave throughout the night until just before sunrise

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Is #TogetherMovie a horror comedy? Which other horror films have made you laugh recently?
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Funny bones, blood and guts

Horror gets viscerally witty

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 16

I discovered this fishy fella on my recent trip to Italy. Here's what I found out about his species: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

The Mer-demon of Todi

How a sea devil made a splash in Italy

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 5

I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Aug 5

So glad you enjoyed!

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 19

Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour?
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Did your parents ever try and terrify you with a cautionary tale?

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Jul 16

From our latest issue 🦝
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
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In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Jul 16

2/2
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 14

The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 14

Would read! #BluePit

Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Jul 13

There’s something in the water 🌊

When an island whispers different versions of unwritten local legends & turning into a creature of the deep as a result of heartbreak makes you want to drown your ex- no one is safe

Especially not the ex boyfriends

#BluePit #Q #A #R #Sp #F

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 13

Slewfoot X The Lamb

Derbyshire, 1642. A young woman, tasked with securing human sacrifices for a guzzling mouth of hell, falls in love with the ideal victim—putting her family and the entire village at risk.

#BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND #H

A moodboard with a cave in the background, eight pictures and a title in the middle: The Brink, a folk horror. Beginning in the twelve o' clock position, the pictures show a bawdy interaction at a seventeenth-century inn, a woodcut of a devil offering a cup to a figure in bed, an underground cavern, a man screaming, a cave system, the entrance to a deep pothole, a rotting sheep and a hillside in the Peak District.

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 13

Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed.
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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 7

*to

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 7

Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*

Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 7

My two pence on the Salt Path scandal: the passages on the natural world were often beautiful, but I was disturbed by the anti-medical bias running through the narrative. As someone who's struggled with depression and anxiety, I've heard plenty of bullshit on the miraculous healing powers of nature.

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Horror is getting nastier. Can you stomach it?

Cannibalism, carnivores and cat murder are the new norms in horror fiction

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Brilliant story! I like how it pulls the rug from under your feet more than once

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great story! So much complex emotion in a small package

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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social · Jul 1

Delighted to have not one, but two pieces in this summer's volume of @trashcatlit.bsky.social! 'Wixton Fen' is inspired by a very real place nearby, where I ran with some buddies last summer. It was vast, beautiful and lonely...
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