Congratulations!!!!!

Happy 15th Anniversary

You may have noticed Shotgun Honey has been on a bit of a hiatus the last 3 months. Part of that was to give the site a much needed restructuring, clean up, and a pretty facelift for the start of our 15th anniversary. Of course, best laid plans and all that.. the updated…

It's going to be great having you back!

Looking forward to this!

Amy Jo Burns' Appalachia - Pittsburgh Review of Books Young women, old women, working women. Women who take the power denied them, women who want nothing more than to disappear, and women who fight for their

I am really thrilled to finally write something for the Pgh Review of Books. That my first piece is about Amy Jo Burns is icing on that cake, baby. Check out all of her books, but especially her new one "Wait for Me" (Celedon Books.)

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Really looking forward to getting to talk to @pmraymond.bsky.social Kyler Campbell, and Scott Gould.

You should come, too!

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Preach, Brother!

This does it. I'm going to have to move to the UK. The missing out has become too much!

David! This looks amazing!

I like how you think!

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I feel this....

There is what my reason tells me. There is what my church tells me. There is what my dreams tell me. There is what this land tells me. I'm coming to accept that I'll never bring these things together before I do. But on my strongest days, I can tell myself without guilt or fear, it is not paganism or idolatry or sacrilege or soon. It's just what I know. And what they tell me, these things I finally let myself trust, is what we're doing to this land is not only murder. It is suicide

Ann Pancake, Strange as this Weather Has Been

New Wind & Root from writer Jim Roberts over on Reckon today! Come see!

Folklore is so much a part of our collective culture that it cannot help but spill out everywhere. It tumbles out of pub signs, street names, graffiti spat from spray cans. Manifests as wondrous acts of knitting. It is an essential element of us. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday

A messing writing table with The Mothman Prophecies and folklore notes.

As department head, I hit all my contractual deadlines. So, it's back to the book research.

Loving this moment but needing to find some consistency.

I'm hoping soon. This is an old time winter!

Congratulations! We really need to actually do a proper porch sit.

Since he's your cat, my money is on summon.

So glad to hear about Bear!!! (But maybe he needs to cut back on the ciggies!)

Paul, I support this.

Reflections on Being Bad at Shit TL; DR - You suck? Do it anyway.

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Fact.

So very, very proud to nominate stories from Patricia Quintana Bidar, V.J. Hamilton, and Catherine Parnell for the Best Small Fictions anthology. Please visit reckonreview.com/award-nomina... to read them.

I'm not sure how this had passed me by, but please give some support to @icaruswritingcollective.com by following their BlueSky account. They are rebuilding after moving from another platform.

Magazines to read for free or to buy - mythic stories to enjoy.

CNN to livestream Hogmanay events from Edinburgh The celebrations in Edinburgh to see in the New Year will, for the first time, be live-streamed by CNN during the broadcaster's 18-hour long worldwide countdown to 2026. The city will star in coverage of Edinburgh's Hogmanay and the First Footin' events on New Year's Day alongside other broadcasts from Auckland to Los Angeles. CNN typically broadcasts to half a billion households all over the world on New Year's Eve, and this year the coverage will include all the Hogmanay traditions from the capital.

CNN to livestream Hogmanay events from Edinburgh

The celebrations in Edinburgh to see in the New Year will, for the first time, be live-streamed by CNN during the broadcaster's 18-hour long worldwide countdown to 2026. The city will star in coverage of Edinburgh's Hogmanay and the First Footin'…

Different depictions of Santa Claus

A flaming ice sculpture

A scary Old Man Christmas mask.

Taking some well deserved time off as an administrator to re-discover my research nerd self. I started working on a project that comes out of the work I did for @reckonreview.bsky.social.

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I thought you might want to revisit it, too.

Happy Wintertide!

That tracks!

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.