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Marisca Pichette (she/they)

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makes things 🏳️‍🌈 | RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR (Android Press, April '23) | Rep: @amycollins.bsky.social | Stonecoast MFA '21 | HWA & SFWA 🐉 | www.mariscapichette.com

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Cynthia Gómez's avatar Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
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As always, you had me at John Wiswell.* This appealed to the "am I a fantasy reader if it's mostly The Last Unicorn and The Wizard of Earthsea?" in me.

*And collaborator @jrdawson.bsky.social, who apparently is writing a sapphic story with Lake Michigan as the River Styx?

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Haven Spec Magazine's avatar Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social
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Our July Issue is now free to read online!
havenspec.com/issue-sixteen

Fiction by J.R. Dawson, Valerie Kemp, Marissa Lingen, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Bree Wernicke, and John Wiswell

Poetry by H.B. Asari, Mari Ness, Eva Papasoulioti, and Marisca Pichette

Cover art: Matthew Spencer

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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Ah, thank you for reading! 🖤

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Strange Horizons's avatar Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues!

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Haven Spec Magazine's avatar Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social
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Seek out the underbelly of fairy tales in "Ever Noir," a new poem by Mari Ness / @mariness.bsky.social!

Read it in our July issue, available now to subscribers and to buy!

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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🖤🖤🥹🥹 this means so much—thank you!!

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Rick Hollon's avatar Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social
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This poem is magnificent.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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"Welcome to Wonderland, final girl. White dress red door too small— squeeze your assets through & join us in acrylic splendor. Don’t smile, don’t cry salt to sting your wounds —they belong up there, not here— here, nothing but the impossible may break." 🩸New poem alert🩸

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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"Welcome to Wonderland, final girl. White dress red door too small— squeeze your assets through & join us in acrylic splendor. Don’t smile, don’t cry salt to sting your wounds —they belong up there, not here— here, nothing but the impossible may break." 🩸New poem alert🩸

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Haven Spec Magazine's avatar Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social
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The good news is that Issue 16 is going out to subscribers tonight, and the free-to-read version will be available on 7/1 The bad news is that I somehow broke my local copy of our website today, and it took me all day to fix it Sooo, I'll update the website *tomorrow* instead

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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Captured in the wild: LOVELY CREATURES by @ktbryski.bsky.social 🐋

Can't wait to dive in🖤@psychopomp.bsky.social

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Haven Spec Magazine's avatar Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social
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The July issue is nearly here, and check out that TOC and cover art! Fiction by J.R. Dawson, Valerie Kemp, Marissa Lingen, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Bree Wernicke, and John Wiswell! Poetry by H.B. Asari, Mari Ness, Eva Papasoulioti, and Marisca Pichette Cover art: Matthew Spencer

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮's avatar Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social
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Guess what, reviewers and reader friends? Advanced e-copies of Beneath the Poet's House are now available on NetGalley!!!

I hope you'll check it out!!!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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My uncle got it for me! I think he buys all my macabre gifts from an online distributor. It lined up so perfectly with the slanting sunlight ☀️

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LOVE THIS 🕯️

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A glowing skunk skull to guide you into the weekend

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Psychopomp's avatar Psychopomp @psychopomp.bsky.social
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the books have arrived @ Psychopomp HQ

so here is a treat to celebrate:

chapter one (and part of chapter two) are now available to read on our site.

pls give it a read and give it a share b/c this novella is SO GOOD *everyone* should read this preview...

psychopomp.com/lovely-creat...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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Ah, thank you! Your art is amazing as usual!!

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💙🫧💙

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Clarkesworld's avatar Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you!

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Clarkesworld's avatar Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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Feel like this needs to be said this morning. Short fiction is not dead. We pay 12 cents/word for stories and that will increase as our subscriber base increases. Want better pay for short story authors? Subscribe to magazines. Want better pay for magazine staff? Subscribe to magazines. Simple

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Angela Liu's avatar Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social
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I’m so behind and overwhelmed with everything, but really happy to see that my poems, “The Beauty of Monsters” and “An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis,” were selected as @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award finalists (huge thanks to @marisca.bsky.social for the heads up).

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Fusion Fragment's avatar Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social
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Not sure if you know this, but FFers were releasing great things in April--a ton of stories out, a novella, a collection, and a TTRPG about a secret agency run by snakes. Let's take a look at all this amazing work! 1/

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KT Bryski's avatar KT Bryski @ktbryski.bsky.social
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It’s a whale of a tale! 🐋 And also interwoven threads of family angst, deep friendship, and telling your own story, even the words are like dust in your throat. I can’t wait to share these characters with you.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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@ktbryski.bsky.social's work is phenomenal, so don't be caught dead without this book (or maybe do? so long as you're reading it in the afterlife) 🐋

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Psychopomp's avatar Psychopomp @psychopomp.bsky.social
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"Doomsday Dot will wake the day the world ends."

it's coming!! and we really think you're gonna love this one.

every pre-order helps us to keep bringing you WONDERFUL things!

psychopomp.com/lovely-creat...

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Rachael K. Jones's avatar Rachael K. Jones @rachaelkjones.bsky.social
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Yay, congratulations to the Rhysling finalists!!!

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Clarkesworld's avatar Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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According to some calendars, today is National Magazine Day. Whether or not it's a real holiday, thanks go to all our readers and listeners! And in keeping with now required practices, here's how you can subscribe:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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Delighted to share that 3 of my poems are finalists for the
@sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award!
"The Goth Girls' Gun Gang" in The Dread Machine
"A Prayer for the Surviving" @havenspec.bsky.social
"As the witch burns" in Fantasy Magazine

Peep them in the Rhysling Anthology this summer🌻

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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SO EXCITED to share that I'll have a story in a future issue of the gorgeous @talesfeathers.bsky.social!!! "One, Two, We, Our" walks you through a day in the life of a witch taking stock of what's important: spices, birdsong, afternoon naps, & the magick connecting it all 🫧

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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"i’ve uncovered too a box of rain & feathers that were your first stories, love.  you told of: the living, lonely sea walking off its beach to find an old woman’s hand. cats bonding with orange trees  recalling each other for centuries." love, love, love 🌸

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Seize The Press Magazine's avatar Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social
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Writers, please send us more fantasy! Particularly dark sword & sorcery, historical horror, grimdark, but anything you think falls under dark fantasy and all the weird stuff you can't truly pin down.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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Only a day late: my April 2024 sub stats! poems accepted: 5 poems published: 8 stories accepted: 4 stories published: 3 + 1 reprint bonus: Elgin nomination! It was a good ole National Poetry/Birthday Month for me 🔮

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)'s avatar Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social
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All my friends (@aijiang.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social & HV Patterson to name a few) are over in poetry land--so peep that lineup!--but I'm stoked to be sharing this TOC with my haunted paleontology museum story "Only the Dead" 🦖

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